Kortnie
Kortnie was last recorded in 2015, when 7 babies were given it; 767 Americans have been recorded with it between 1978 and 2015 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kortnie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kortnie?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,802, in 2015; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
58 babies in 1993, the peak
Kortnie peaked in 1993, when 58 girls were given it, #2,249 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 7 | #13,802 | 3.9 |
| 2014 | 6 | #15,666 | 3.4 |
| 2012 | 5 | #18,317 | 2.8 |
| 2011 | 7 | #14,118 | 4.0 |
| 2010 | 13 | #8,989 | 7.3 |
| 2009 | 16 | #7,897 | 8.7 |
| 2008 | 10 | #11,236 | 5.3 |
| 2007 | 10 | #11,267 | 5.2 |
| 2006 | 13 | #9,019 | 6.8 |
| 2005 | 17 | #7,006 | 9.2 |
Every recorded year (36)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 20 | #6,107 | 10.9 |
| 2003 | 14 | #7,804 | 7.7 |
| 2002 | 21 | #5,580 | 11.7 |
| 2001 | 24 | #4,915 | 13.3 |
| 2000 | 27 | #4,475 | 14.9 |
| 1999 | 23 | #4,799 | 13.0 |
| 1998 | 21 | #5,041 | 11.9 |
| 1997 | 27 | #4,072 | 15.5 |
| 1996 | 30 | #3,677 | 17.1 |
| 1995 | 37 | #3,125 | 21.0 |
| 1994 | 34 | #3,333 | 19.0 |
| 1993 | 58 | #2,249 | 32.1 |
| 1992 | 36 | #3,171 | 19.5 |
| 1991 | 48 | #2,567 | 25.6 |
| 1990 | 40 | #2,869 | 21.1 |
| 1989 | 41 | #2,730 | 22.2 |
| 1988 | 35 | #2,946 | 19.7 |
| 1987 | 33 | #2,940 | 19.0 |
| 1986 | 25 | #3,494 | 14.6 |
| 1985 | 16 | #4,740 | 9.3 |
| 1984 | 13 | #5,368 | 7.7 |
| 1983 | 11 | #6,008 | 6.6 |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,689 | 4.1 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,710 | 3.6 |
| 1980 | 11 | #6,113 | 6.6 |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,549 | 3.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kortnie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kortnie 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 Kortnie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kortnie, and how old are they?
An estimated 751 Americans named Kortnie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 32 years old and half are between 26 and 37. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 656 people named Kortnie (652 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 755 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 Kortnie?
Kortnie is a less common spelling of Cortney: SSA has recorded 767 Kortnie and 20,096 Cortney since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 32,425 babies since 1880, Kortnie is the eighth most given (2.4% of them).
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 Kortnie
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 Kortnie and names like it
- Compare Kortnie and CortneyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sKortnie peaked in 1993.
- Michigan’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kortnie since 1910.
- The top names of 1993The year the most babies were named Kortnie.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Kortnie alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with KMost given first.