Kortney
Kortney was last recorded in 2023, when 5 babies were given it; 5,749 Americans have been recorded with it between 1966 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,600 Americans named Kortney and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 33 years old and half are between 27 and 38.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kortney by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kortney?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,478, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
335 babies in 1990, the peak
Kortney peaked in 1990, when 335 babies were given it (316 girls, #676 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 5 | #16,478 | under 0.01 |
| 2021 | 6 | #14,439 | under 0.01 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,725 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 12 | #8,857 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,506 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,557 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 15 | #7,804 | 0.01 |
| 2015 | 19 | #6,595 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 24 | #5,555 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 19 | #6,599 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (56)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 32 | #4,551 | 0.02 |
| 2011 | 37 | #4,034 | 0.02 |
| 2010 | 59 | #2,922 | 0.03 |
| 2009 | 53 | #3,180 | 0.03 |
| 2008 | 57 | #3,040 | 0.03 |
| 2007 | 60 | #2,977 | 0.03 |
| 2006 | 55 | #3,071 | 0.03 |
| 2005 | 108 | #1,809 | 0.06 |
| 2004 | 95 | #1,967 | 0.05 |
| 2003 | 113 | #1,695 | 0.06 |
| 2002 | 108 | #1,701 | 0.06 |
| 2001 | 140 | #1,362 | 0.08 |
| 2000 | 144 | #1,320 | 0.08 |
| 1999 | 186 | #1,076 | 0.10 |
| 1998 | 219 | #943 | 0.12 |
| 1997 | 213 | #934 | 0.12 |
| 1996 | 241 | #833 | 0.14 |
| 1995 | 249 | #797 | 0.14 |
| 1994 | 268 | #770 | 0.15 |
| 1993 | 274 | #756 | 0.15 |
| 1992 | 239 | #836 | 0.13 |
| 1991 | 281 | #743 | 0.15 |
| 1990 | 316 | #676 | 0.17 |
| 1989 | 256 | #762 | 0.14 |
| 1988 | 208 | #859 | 0.12 |
| 1987 | 129 | #1,146 | 0.07 |
| 1986 | 155 | #998 | 0.09 |
| 1985 | 129 | #1,121 | 0.07 |
| 1984 | 94 | #1,309 | 0.06 |
| 1983 | 111 | #1,180 | 0.07 |
| 1982 | 94 | #1,329 | 0.06 |
| 1981 | 89 | #1,389 | 0.05 |
| 1980 | 67 | #1,696 | 0.04 |
| 1979 | 58 | #1,843 | 0.04 |
| 1978 | 48 | #2,001 | 0.03 |
| 1977 | 42 | #2,197 | 0.03 |
| 1976 | 49 | #1,875 | 0.03 |
| 1975 | 20 | #3,449 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 27 | #2,718 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 14 | #4,247 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 7 | #6,891 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,841 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,679 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 11 | #4,574 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 7 | #5,913 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 5 | #7,078 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kortney a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 5,749 Americans recorded as Kortney, 92% are girls and 8% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Kortney: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kortney, and how old are they?
5,600 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 5,749 Americans ever recorded as Kortney. The median Kortney alive today is 33 years old; half are between 27 and 38.
The 2020 Census counted 4,924 people named Kortney (4,582 women and girls, 342 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,623 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 452 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 3,290 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,720 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 137 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Kortney born?
The states with the most babies named Kortney are California, Texas and Ohio, with 30% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 353 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Texas | 331 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Ohio | 293 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Michigan | 257 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Illinois | 179 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Indiana | 173 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Florida | 147 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 132 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Utah | 124 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| New York | 111 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Kortney is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kortney is most over-represented in Utah: since 1966 it was given 1.8 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Kortney with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 325,355 babies since 1880, Kortney is the fourth most given (1.8% of them). In 2025 none of their 163 babies recorded by SSA was a Kortney (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 Kortney
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 Kortney and names like it
- Compare Kortney and CourtneyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sKortney peaked in 1990.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kortney since 1910.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Kortney.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Kortney alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with KMost given first.