Girls' name · since 1979
Coutney
77 babies named Coutney in U.S. Social Security records since 1979, with the highest year being 1988. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #30,015 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 77
- born since 1979
- 1980s
- peak decade
77 girls have been named Coutney since 1979, though it isn't currently a top-ranked name.
Coutney has 77 recorded births among girls since 1979, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1980s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1979 to 2000.
- #30,015 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 77 born since 1979
- 1980s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Coutney ranks #30,015 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 77 born since 1979, peaking in the 1980s.
- #30,015 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 77
- born since 1979
- 1980s
- peak decade
Coutney's 77 recorded births place it above 58.36% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Coutney's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Coutney's full recorded timeline at 1987, 66% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 34% in the earlier half -- usage has skewed toward the present, not a one-decade spike. Its quietest year on record was 1979, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 1988 peak of 14 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Coutney popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1979–2000
- Peak year (1988)
- 14
- Annual births at peak, across 22 years of records
Coutney by decade
1980s is the heaviest window (54 births, 70% of the file).
1980s was Coutney's strongest decade.
54 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 70% of all-time use.
Coutney births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1970s 5
1970s
5 births
- 1980s
1980s
54 births
- 1990s 13
1990s
13 births
- 2000s 5
2000s
5 births
What this shows Peak: 1980s at 54 births (70% of all-time use).
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What to do with Coutney's data
- Coutney's decade-level peak was the 1980s (54 total births); usage has since declined to 5 in the 2000s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Two nationwide peer axes for Coutney: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~1988)
Similar record span (~21 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1979–2000 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Coutney draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.