Courtney — #1974 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Courtney

The Social Security Administration has registered 258,319 babies named Courtney between 1881 and 2024, spanning 144 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Courtney currently holds the #1974 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1990, when 15,380 babies received it in a single year. Courtney is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 22,996 additional births since 1884.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Courtney performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 113,289 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Courtney shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 20,385 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Courtney in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Courtney in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 258,319 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.