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Cortney

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Variant of Courtney

Cortney has been given to 20,096 babies in the U.S. since 1963. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1990, with 1,261 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 84% girls, 16% boys all-time.

Babies named Cortney, 2023

1 in 663,000

Cortney over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
05001K1.5K18801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Cortney over time

In 2025, Cortney went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

19432025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Cortney: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Courtney

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Cortney means

Cortney is a variant of Courtney.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Cortney → Courtney. The family’s meaning is “short”, recorded in English with the source elements curtus.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Courtney.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 16,923 girls were recorded with the name Cortney between 1963 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 1,261 in 1990; its best national rank was #226 in 1990.

In the United States, 3,173 boys were recorded with the name Cortney between 1943 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 152 in 1987; its best national rank was #706 in 1977.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #8,199 in 2020 to #9,902 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,092 in 2015 to #9,902 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 Cortney?

Cortney had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,314,783 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
459,528 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Cortney sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2023 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 459,528 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Cortney. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Cortneys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Cortney was born before 1989 — so the typical Cortney is around 36 today.

Median birth year
1989
About 36 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
41.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
10.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
16,923
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 41.7% of all recorded uses (7,054).

Is Cortney 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1990 (1,261)
Years since peak
35
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#226
1990

Spellings of Cortney

Cortney is not the most common spelling — Courtney is, with 78.5% against Cortney's 5.1%.

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 Cortney is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Cortney was most concentrated in Utah — about 1 in 4,545 girls, against 1 in 10,502 across all states with data. It was least common in South Dakota (1 in 100,000).

122 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Utah1 in 4,545
  2. 2Idaho1 in 5,556
  3. 3Michigan1 in 6,667
  4. 4Arkansas1 in 7,143
  5. 5Indiana1 in 7,143
  6. 6Nebraska1 in 7,143
  7. 7Ohio1 in 7,143
  8. 8Oklahoma1 in 7,143

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Cortney has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Where Cortney is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Cortney was most concentrated in Tennessee — about 1 in 16,667 boys, against 1 in 80,553 across all states with data. It was least common in South Carolina (1 in —).

06 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Tennessee1 in 16,667
  2. 2Alabama1 in 20,000
  3. 3Utah1 in 20,000
  4. 4Mississippi1 in 25,000
  5. 5Arkansas1 in 50,000
  6. 6Florida1 in 50,000
  7. 7Georgia1 in 50,000
  8. 8Illinois1 in 50,000

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. Cortney has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Cortney around the world

Where Cortney 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.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2011
    #5,785
    in 2011
  • Northern Ireland
    1997–1997
    #358
    in 1997
  • Canada
    1991–2005
    #2,828
    in 2005
  • South Australia
    1982–2010
    #801
    in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Cortney

People whose public names include Cortney, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Cortney in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Cortney. Linked forms have their own page here.

KortneyCourtney

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Cortney by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#226
1990
Peak year
1990
1,261 that year
First recorded
1963
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
16,923
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#9,902
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,703
Best rank ever
#706
1977
Peak year
1987
152 that year
First recorded
1943
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,173
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Cortney

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

CorrineCorinaCorinnaCorneliaCordeliaCorrinaCorinneCorrieJourneyCoralineCoralieCoraleeCoralBritneyCoreyCorineKourtneyDelaneySidneyLaineyCoriTierneyCoralynDestiney

Names with a curve like Cortney

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Cortney, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

MeaghanBrianneAshlieLyndseyChantelKristynBreanneLacyShainaMayraTiffaniMeagan

Sibling names for Cortney

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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