Meaning not yet researched.
Cortney: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 7 in 2025. Its best rank was #706 in 1983.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #706 in 1983; #9,906 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Cortney in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#9,906 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1983, at #706.
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Cortney: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 7 boys in 2025. Peak: #706 in 1983 · most boys in one year: 152 (1987).
In 2025, 7 US boys were named Cortney, making it the 9,906th most common boys’ name of the year, up 2,802 places from #12,708 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 5 boys named Cortney in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #706, reached in 1983. The most boys given the name in a single year was 152, in 1987. For comparison, it was #5,095 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Fewer than five US girls were named Cortney in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #226, reached in 1990. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,261. For comparison, it was #7,719 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Cortney in 71 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1943 with 5 babies. In all, 20,096 US babies have been given the name, 84% of them girls and 16% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 8,445 babies named Cortney.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 102 US boys were named Cortney; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 19. In 2025 that was about 1 in 244,011 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Courtney (281,432 babies since 1880), Kourtney (14,765 babies since 1880), Kortney (5,749 babies since 1880) and Courtnee (1,636 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Cortnie, Cortni and Kortnee are summarised on this page.
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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Cortnie (869), Cortni (823), Kortnee (660), Kortny (82), Kortnei (41), Quortney (5).
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 Cortney 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 | — | — | 7 | #9,906 |
| 2024 | — | — | 5 | #12,708 |
| 2023 | 5 | #15,714 | 13 | #6,611 |
| 2022 | — | — | 11 | #7,359 |
| 2021 | 5 | #15,781 | 7 | #9,936 |
| 2020 | 6 | #13,822 | 9 | #8,204 |
| 2019 | 9 | #10,670 | 8 | #9,059 |
| 2018 | — | — | 14 | #6,094 |
| 2017 | 17 | #6,873 | 9 | #8,289 |
| 2016 | 13 | #8,497 | 19 | #4,986 |
| 2015 | 15 | #7,719 | 18 | #5,095 |
| 2014 | 18 | #6,778 | 22 | #4,420 |
| 2013 | 21 | #6,069 | 13 | #6,316 |
| 2012 | 19 | #6,666 | 20 | #4,724 |
| 2011 | 26 | #5,244 | 27 | #3,812 |
| 2010 | 32 | #4,513 | 15 | #5,794 |
| 2009 | 61 | #2,859 | 31 | #3,490 |
| 2008 | 45 | #3,597 | 32 | #3,430 |
| 2007 | 62 | #2,897 | 21 | #4,527 |
| 2006 | 88 | #2,192 | 18 | #4,902 |
| 2005 | 97 | #1,970 | 14 | #5,627 |
| 2004 | 125 | #1,579 | 24 | #3,753 |
| 2003 | 156 | #1,321 | 25 | #3,548 |
| 2002 | 142 | #1,364 | 17 | #4,538 |
| 2001 | 171 | #1,195 | 20 | #3,998 |
| 2000 | 273 | #825 | 18 | #4,245 |
| 1999 | 296 | #755 | 32 | #2,677 |
| 1998 | 357 | #646 | 31 | #2,664 |
| 1997 | 400 | #581 | 36 | #2,318 |
| 1996 | 467 | #510 | 28 | #2,694 |
| 1995 | 620 | #414 | 34 | #2,307 |
| 1994 | 593 | #424 | 36 | #2,229 |
| 1993 | 755 | #341 | 51 | #1,701 |
| 1992 | 854 | #320 | 50 | #1,699 |
| 1991 | 922 | #302 | 98 | #1,105 |
| 1990 | 1,261 | #226 | 123 | #930 |
| 1989 | 1,024 | #262 | 144 | #831 |
| 1988 | 953 | #265 | 151 | #768 |
| 1987 | 751 | #325 | 152 | #742 |
| 1986 | 758 | #315 | 137 | #775 |
| 1985 | 731 | #325 | 141 | #750 |
| 1984 | 618 | #370 | 128 | #766 |
| 1983 | 552 | #397 | 147 | #706 |
| 1982 | 584 | #395 | 131 | #766 |
| 1981 | 621 | #375 | 116 | #816 |
| 1980 | 462 | #459 | 144 | #730 |
| 1979 | 343 | #545 | 120 | #789 |
| 1978 | 355 | #522 | 117 | #780 |
| 1977 | 306 | #570 | 145 | #706 |
| 1976 | 322 | #541 | 83 | #914 |
| 1975 | 191 | #749 | 61 | #1,069 |
| 1974 | 171 | #794 | 43 | #1,293 |
| 1973 | 32 | #2,360 | 29 | #1,615 |
| 1972 | 37 | #2,107 | 26 | #1,735 |
| 1971 | 48 | #1,831 | 22 | #1,932 |
| 1970 | 33 | #2,316 | 15 | #2,416 |
| 1969 | 32 | #2,260 | 27 | #1,574 |
| 1968 | 21 | #2,805 | 18 | #1,905 |
| 1967 | 16 | #3,231 | 15 | #2,047 |
| 1966 | 16 | #3,168 | 11 | #2,499 |
| 1965 | 10 | #4,248 | 12 | #2,388 |
| 1964 | — | — | 12 | #2,442 |
| 1963 | 5 | #6,778 | 12 | #2,439 |
| 1962 | — | — | 12 | #2,405 |
| 1961 | — | — | 9 | #2,933 |
| 1960 | — | — | 10 | #2,718 |
| 1955 | — | — | 6 | #3,571 |
| 1954 | — | — | 5 | #3,928 |
| 1953 | — | — | 6 | #3,497 |
| 1949 | — | — | 5 | #3,789 |
| 1943 | — | — | 5 | #3,641 |
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).