Kortnee
Kortnee was last recorded in 2018, when 5 babies were given it; 660 Americans have been recorded with it between 1978 and 2018 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kortnee by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kortnee?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,988, in 2018; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
46 babies in 1990, the peak
Kortnee peaked in 1990, when 46 girls were given it, #2,581 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 5 | #16,988 | 2.9 |
| 2014 | 8 | #12,552 | 4.5 |
| 2013 | 8 | #12,622 | 4.6 |
| 2012 | 5 | #18,316 | 2.8 |
| 2010 | 10 | #10,851 | 5.6 |
| 2009 | 13 | #9,162 | 7.1 |
| 2008 | 14 | #8,758 | 7.4 |
| 2007 | 6 | #16,614 | 3.1 |
| 2006 | 13 | #9,018 | 6.8 |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,456 | 4.3 |
Every recorded year (36)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 8 | #12,233 | 4.4 |
| 2003 | 25 | #5,025 | 13.7 |
| 2002 | 23 | #5,182 | 12.8 |
| 2001 | 16 | #6,814 | 8.9 |
| 2000 | 29 | #4,237 | 16.0 |
| 1999 | 21 | #5,124 | 11.8 |
| 1998 | 30 | #3,876 | 17.0 |
| 1997 | 41 | #2,952 | 23.6 |
| 1996 | 32 | #3,533 | 18.3 |
| 1995 | 36 | #3,179 | 20.5 |
| 1994 | 25 | #4,183 | 14.0 |
| 1993 | 27 | #3,929 | 14.9 |
| 1992 | 30 | #3,624 | 16.3 |
| 1991 | 29 | #3,669 | 15.5 |
| 1990 | 46 | #2,581 | 24.2 |
| 1989 | 27 | #3,731 | 14.6 |
| 1988 | 29 | #3,346 | 16.3 |
| 1987 | 14 | #5,439 | 8.1 |
| 1986 | 7 | #9,036 | 4.1 |
| 1985 | 20 | #4,058 | 11.6 |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,532 | 5.9 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,656 | 4.8 |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,824 | 4.7 |
| 1981 | 11 | #6,099 | 6.6 |
| 1980 | 12 | #5,710 | 7.2 |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,093 | 3.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kortnee a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kortnee has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 36 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kortnee: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kortnee, and how old are they?
An estimated 647 Americans named Kortnee and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 31 years old and half are between 26 and 36. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 567 people named Kortnee (555 women and girls, 12 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 650 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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 Kortnee?
Kortnee is a less common spelling of Cortney: SSA has recorded 660 Kortnee and 20,096 Cortney since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 45,731 babies since 1880, Kortnee is the eighth most given (1.4% of them). In 2025 none of their 47 babies recorded by SSA was a Kortnee (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Kortnee
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 Kortnee and names like it
- Compare Kortnee and CortneyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sKortnee peaked in 1990.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kortnee since 1910.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Kortnee.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Kortnee alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with KMost given first.