Kortland
Kortland was given to 7 boys in 2025, #10,242 among boys’ names; 152 Americans have been recorded with it since 1987 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kortland by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kortland?
#10,242 among boys’ names, 2025
Kortland fell from #10,162 in 2015 to #10,242 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 3.7 to 4.1 per million.
17 babies in 2011, the peak
Kortland peaked in 2011, when 17 boys were given it, #5,332 among boys’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 41% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #10,242 | 4.1 |
| 2021 | 7 | #10,323 | 4.0 |
| 2020 | 6 | #11,374 | 3.5 |
| 2016 | 8 | #9,331 | 4.2 |
| 2015 | 7 | #10,162 | 3.7 |
| 2014 | 11 | #7,324 | 5.7 |
| 2013 | 5 | #13,203 | 2.6 |
| 2012 | 10 | #7,879 | 5.3 |
| 2011 | 17 | #5,332 | 9.0 |
| 2009 | 7 | #10,513 | 3.5 |
Every recorded year (20)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 5 | #13,695 | 2.5 |
| 2007 | 6 | #11,740 | 2.9 |
| 2002 | 8 | #8,104 | 4.1 |
| 2001 | 7 | #8,812 | 3.6 |
| 1999 | 9 | #6,853 | 4.7 |
| 1998 | 8 | #7,247 | 4.2 |
| 1995 | 7 | #7,434 | 3.7 |
| 1994 | 6 | #8,328 | 3.1 |
| 1992 | 6 | #7,994 | 3.0 |
| 1987 | 5 | #7,603 | 2.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kortland a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kortland has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 20 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kortland: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kortland, and how old are they?
An estimated 149 Americans named Kortland and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 12 and 27. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 196 people named Kortland (18 women and girls, 178 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 132 born in the U.S. The Census count is 48% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
How common is the spelling Kortland?
Kortland is a less common spelling of Cortland: SSA has recorded 152 Kortland and 2,194 Cortland since 1880.
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 6,578 babies since 1880, Kortland is the third most given (2.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 65 babies (11%), again the third most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Kortland
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Kortland and names like it
- Compare Kortland and CortlandBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sKortland peaked in 2011.
- The top names of 2011The year the most babies were named Kortland.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kortland alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.