Courage
#7,781 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Courage has been given to 330 babies in the U.S. since 1990. In 2025 it ranked #7,781 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2019, with 18 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 81% boys, 19% girls all-time.
Babies named Courage, 2025
1 in 332,000
Courage over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Courage over time
In 2025, Courage went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
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.
How common is Courage?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 332,000
- 10 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 171,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #7,781
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 229,791 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Courage sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Courage. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Courages were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Courage was born before 2015 — so the typical Courage is around 10 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 44.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 89.2%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 268
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 44.0% of all recorded uses (118).
Is Courage 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
- −436
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −159
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −1,384
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.77×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 55.6%
- Peak was 2019 (18)
- Years since peak
- 6
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 29.3% average annual change
Courage around the world
Where Courage 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 & Wales2003–2008#3,687in 2008
- France2016–2020#5,734in 2020
- Canada2004–2019#2,293in 2019
- South Australia2000–2000#556in 2000
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Courage by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Courage
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Courage
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.