Kortney — unisex name

What the Data Says About Kortney

The Social Security Administration has registered 5,313 babies named Kortney between 1966 and 2023, spanning 58 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Kortney currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 1990, when 316 babies received it in a single year. Kortney is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 436 additional births since 1970.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kortney performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 2,486 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Kortney shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 353 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Kortney in 37 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kortney 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 5,313 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.