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Kourtney

#4,501 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' name

Short, through Courtney

Kourtney has been given to 14,765 babies in the U.S. since 1964. In 2025 it ranked #4,501 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1990, with 646 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 94% girls, 6% boys all-time.

Babies named Kourtney, 2025

1 in 107,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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

In 2025, Kourtney went to 78% girls and 22% boys.

19642025

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.

Kourtney: meaning, origin, and history

Short, through Courtney

surname transfer

What Kourtney means

Kourtney belongs to the name family reached through Kourtney → Courtney. Its meaning is “short”.

Origin, language, and formation

Kourtney is used in English. Its origins include surname transfer.

Kourtney is recorded as a surname transferred into given-name use.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Courtney.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 13,925 girls were recorded with the name Kourtney between 1964 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 646 in 1990; its best national rank was #403 in 1990.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,268 in 2020 to #4,501 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,098 in 2015 to #4,501 in 2025.

In the United States, 840 boys were recorded with the name Kourtney between 1971 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 36 in 1990; its best national rank was #1,748 in 1985.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #13,201 in 2020 to #8,620 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #10,164 in 2015 to #8,620 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 Kourtney?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 107,000
31 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 51,800
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#4,501
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
74,127 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kourtney 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 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 74,127 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kourtney. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kourtneys were born

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

Median birth year
1996
About 29 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
39.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
36.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
13,925
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1990s — 39.1% of all recorded uses (5,447).

Is Kourtney 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
−1,018
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,233
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3,403
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.13×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
4.8%
Peak was 1990 (646)
Years since peak
35
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#403
1990

Spellings of Kourtney

Kourtney is not the most common spelling — Courtney is, with 80.5% against Kourtney's 4.3%.

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 Kourtney is used — girls

Across 2016–2025, Kourtney was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in 11,111 girls, against 1 in 24,818 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in 100,000).

19 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Georgia1 in 11,111
  2. 2Alabama1 in 16,667
  3. 3Florida1 in 16,667
  4. 4Texas1 in 16,667
  5. 5Illinois1 in 20,000
  6. 6Mississippi1 in 20,000
  7. 7Washington1 in 20,000
  8. 8Michigan1 in 25,000

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.

Where Kourtney is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Kourtney was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 747,063 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in —
  2. 2Illinois1 in —
  3. 3Louisiana1 in —
  4. 4Michigan1 in —
  5. 5Ohio1 in —
  6. 6Texas1 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. Kourtney has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Kourtney around the world

Where Kourtney 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
    1996–2024
    #4,193
    in 2024
  • Scotland
    1996–2018
    #809
    in 2018
  • Northern Ireland
    2010–2021
    #350
    in 2021
  • Ireland
    2010–2019
    #716
    in 2019
  • France
    2010–2021
    #6,815
    in 2021
  • Canada
    1991–2023
    #2,672
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    2010–2011
    #337
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Kourtney

People whose public names include Kourtney, 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.

Kourtney in other languages

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

Courtney

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

Kourtney by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#4,501
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,233
Best rank ever
#403
1990
Peak year
1990
646 that year
First recorded
1964
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
13,925
Count in 2025
31

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#8,620
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 4,581
Best rank ever
#1,748
1985
Peak year
1990
36 that year
First recorded
1971
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
840
Count in 2025
9

Names similar to Kourtney

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

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Names with a curve like Kourtney

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

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Sibling names for Kourtney

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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