Meaning not yet researched.
Cortland: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 27 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,560 in 1991.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,560 in 1991; #3,968 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Cortland in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,968 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1991, at #1,560.
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Cortland: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 27 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,560 in 1991 · most boys in one year: 62 (2011).
In 2025, 27 US boys were named Cortland, making it the 3,968th most common boys’ name of the year, up 1,311 places from #5,279 in 2024. That is 9 more than the 18 boys named Cortland in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,560, reached in 1991. The most boys given the name in a single year was 62, in 2011. For comparison, it was #2,651 in 2015 and #3,085 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Cortland in 110 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1913 with 5 babies. In all, 2,194 US babies have been given the name, 2.2% of them girls and 98% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 510 babies named Cortland.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 279 US boys were named Cortland; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 41. In 2025 that was about 1 in 63,262 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Courtland (4,100 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Cortland in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 27 | #3,968 |
| 2024 | 5 | #15,795 | 18 | #5,279 |
| 2023 | — | — | 28 | #3,909 |
| 2022 | — | — | 30 | #3,706 |
| 2021 | 7 | #12,493 | 20 | #4,809 |
| 2020 | — | — | 27 | #3,836 |
| 2019 | 5 | #16,083 | 23 | #4,360 |
| 2018 | — | — | 41 | #2,902 |
| 2017 | — | — | 28 | #3,793 |
| 2016 | — | — | 37 | #3,116 |
| 2015 | — | — | 46 | #2,651 |
| 2014 | 5 | #17,157 | 42 | #2,816 |
| 2013 | — | — | 50 | #2,467 |
| 2012 | 5 | #17,474 | 44 | #2,723 |
| 2011 | — | — | 62 | #2,131 |
| 2010 | — | — | 47 | #2,593 |
| 2009 | 5 | #17,937 | 38 | #3,059 |
| 2008 | — | — | 31 | #3,502 |
| 2007 | — | — | 33 | #3,319 |
| 2006 | — | — | 25 | #3,914 |
| 2005 | — | — | 29 | #3,399 |
| 2004 | — | — | 20 | #4,294 |
| 2003 | — | — | 35 | #2,797 |
| 2002 | — | — | 43 | #2,384 |
| 2001 | — | — | 34 | #2,753 |
| 2000 | — | — | 39 | #2,438 |
| 1999 | — | — | 54 | #1,828 |
| 1998 | — | — | 51 | #1,903 |
| 1997 | — | — | 53 | #1,797 |
| 1996 | 5 | #13,973 | 56 | #1,692 |
| 1995 | 5 | #13,890 | 51 | #1,738 |
| 1994 | 7 | #10,819 | 49 | #1,779 |
| 1993 | — | — | 39 | #2,058 |
| 1992 | — | — | 52 | #1,663 |
| 1991 | — | — | 55 | #1,560 |
| 1990 | — | — | 33 | #2,181 |
| 1989 | — | — | 33 | #2,111 |
| 1988 | — | — | 28 | #2,207 |
| 1987 | — | — | 31 | #1,984 |
| 1986 | — | — | 24 | #2,308 |
| 1985 | — | — | 14 | #3,243 |
| 1984 | — | — | 20 | #2,447 |
| 1983 | — | — | 11 | #3,664 |
| 1982 | — | — | 15 | #2,993 |
| 1981 | — | — | 10 | #3,902 |
| 1980 | — | — | 9 | #4,207 |
| 1979 | — | — | 8 | #4,483 |
| 1978 | — | — | 7 | #4,638 |
| 1977 | — | — | 15 | #2,810 |
| 1976 | — | — | 7 | #4,530 |
| 1975 | — | — | 9 | #3,708 |
| 1974 | — | — | 7 | #4,264 |
| 1973 | — | — | 5 | #5,235 |
| 1972 | — | — | 12 | #2,846 |
| 1971 | — | — | 7 | #4,050 |
| 1970 | — | — | 9 | #3,325 |
| 1969 | — | — | 5 | #4,508 |
| 1968 | — | — | 7 | #3,433 |
| 1967 | — | — | 11 | #2,499 |
| 1966 | — | — | 9 | #2,816 |
| 1965 | — | — | 15 | #2,105 |
| 1964 | — | — | 6 | #3,677 |
| 1963 | — | — | 9 | #2,898 |
| 1962 | — | — | 7 | #3,367 |
| 1961 | — | — | 13 | #2,339 |
| 1960 | — | — | 7 | #3,400 |
| 1959 | — | — | 6 | #3,681 |
| 1958 | — | — | 6 | #3,616 |
| 1957 | — | — | 7 | #3,300 |
| 1956 | — | — | 10 | #2,658 |
| 1955 | — | — | 6 | #3,570 |
| 1954 | — | — | 10 | #2,621 |
| 1953 | — | — | 12 | #2,306 |
| 1952 | — | — | 10 | #2,557 |
| 1951 | — | — | 10 | #2,530 |
| 1950 | — | — | 7 | #3,085 |
| 1949 | — | — | 8 | #2,833 |
| 1948 | — | — | 14 | #2,048 |
| 1947 | — | — | 9 | #2,700 |
| 1946 | — | — | 8 | #2,743 |
| 1945 | — | — | 8 | #2,603 |
| 1944 | — | — | 10 | #2,338 |
| 1943 | — | — | 5 | #3,640 |
| 1942 | — | — | 11 | #2,289 |
| 1941 | — | — | 5 | #3,604 |
| 1940 | — | — | 9 | #2,514 |
| 1938 | — | — | 8 | #2,686 |
| 1936 | — | — | 7 | #2,926 |
| 1935 | — | — | 12 | #2,151 |
| 1934 | — | — | 9 | #2,598 |
| 1933 | — | — | 5 | #3,750 |
| 1932 | — | — | 7 | #3,140 |
| 1931 | — | — | 8 | #2,904 |
| 1930 | — | — | 12 | #2,327 |
| 1928 | — | — | 9 | #2,894 |
| 1927 | — | — | 8 | #3,214 |
| 1926 | — | — | 8 | #3,191 |
| 1925 | — | — | 10 | #2,787 |
| 1924 | — | — | 7 | #3,562 |
| 1923 | — | — | 10 | #2,802 |
| 1922 | — | — | 6 | #3,946 |
| 1921 | — | — | 8 | #3,269 |
| 1920 | — | — | 7 | #3,551 |
| 1919 | — | — | 8 | #3,168 |
| 1918 | — | — | 9 | #2,922 |
| 1917 | — | — | 14 | #2,109 |
| 1916 | — | — | 10 | #2,586 |
| 1915 | — | — | 12 | #2,206 |
| 1914 | — | — | 15 | #1,619 |
| 1913 | — | — | 5 | #2,915 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).