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Kortney

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Variant of Courtney

Kortney has been given to 5,749 babies in the U.S. since 1966. 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 316 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 92% girls, 8% boys all-time.

Babies named Kortney, 2023

1 in 663,000

Kortney over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Kortney over time

In 2023, Kortney went to 100% girls and 0% boys.

19662023

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.

Kortney: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Courtney

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kortney means

Kortney is a variant of Courtney.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Kortney is used in English (Modern).

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈkɔɹt.ni/ and /ˈkɔːt.ni/ for Kortney.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Kortney → 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, 5,313 girls were recorded with the name Kortney between 1966 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 316 in 1990; its best national rank was #676 in 1990.

In the United States, 436 boys were recorded with the name Kortney between 1970 and 2013. Its highest annual count was 25 in 1978; its best national rank was #1,997 in 1978.

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 Kortney?

Kortney 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 Kortney 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 Kortney. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kortneys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kortney was born before 1993 — so the typical Kortney is around 32 today.

Median birth year
1993
About 32 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
46.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
26.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
5,313
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 46.8% of all recorded uses (2,486).

Is Kortney 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1990 (316)
Years since peak
35
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#676
1990

Spellings of Kortney

Kortney is not the most common spelling — Courtney is, with 85.7% against Kortney's 1.8%.

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 Kortney is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Kortney was most concentrated in Utah — about 1 in 11,111 girls, against 1 in 46,330 across all states with data. It was least common in Oregon (1 in —).

09 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Utah1 in 11,111
  2. 2Idaho1 in 20,000
  3. 3Indiana1 in 20,000
  4. 4Michigan1 in 25,000
  5. 5Ohio1 in 25,000
  6. 6Oklahoma1 in 25,000
  7. 7Arizona1 in 33,333
  8. 8Florida1 in 33,333

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

Where Kortney is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Kortney was most concentrated in Utah — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 295,875 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Utah1 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. Kortney has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Kortney around the world

Where Kortney 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
    2005–2011
    #5,785
    in 2011
  • Canada
    1991–2011
    #2,838
    in 2011
  • South Australia
    1993–2003
    #739
    in 2003

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS 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 Kortney

People whose public names include Kortney, 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.

Kortney in other languages

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

Cortney

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

Kortney 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
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Best rank ever
#676
1990
Peak year
1990
316 that year
First recorded
1966
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
5,313
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,997
1978
Peak year
1978
25 that year
First recorded
1970
Last recorded
2013
All-time count
436
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Kortney

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

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Names with a curve like Kortney

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

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Sibling names for Kortney

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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