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Cort

#6,191 in 2025Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Cort has been given to 1,918 babies in the U.S. since 1915. In 2025 it ranked #6,191 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2011, with 57 recorded.

Babies named Cort, 2025

1 in 237,000

Cort over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Cort: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Cort means

Cort is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Cort is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,918 boys were recorded with the name Cort between 1915 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 57 in 2011; its best national rank was #1,150 in 1962.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,728 in 2020 to #6,191 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,975 in 2015 to #6,191 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Cort?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 237,000
14 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 122,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#6,191
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
164,137 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Cort sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 164,137 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Cort. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Corts were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Cort was born before 1996 — so the typical Cort is around 29 today.

Median birth year
1996
About 29 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
23.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
42.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,873
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Choose a decade

2000s — 23.3% of all recorded uses (446).

Is Cort rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−488
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,463
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3,216
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.36×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
24.6%
Peak was 2011 (57)
Years since peak
14
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,150
1962

Spellings of Cort

Cort is not the most common spelling — Scott is, with 31.5% against Cort's 0.08%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Cort is used

Across 1910–2025, Cort was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 243,625 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Colorado1 in —
  4. 4Louisiana1 in —
  5. 5Ohio1 in —
  6. 6Oklahoma1 in —
  7. 7Washington1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Cort has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Cort around the world

Where Cort ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • South Australia
    1978–1978
    #424
    in 1978

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Cort by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#6,191
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,463
Best rank ever
#1,150
1962
Peak year
2011
57 that year
First recorded
1915
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,918
Count in 2025
14

Names similar to Cort

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Cort

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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