How Many People Are Named Cortney?
people named Cortney are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 17,590 people in the US has this name
Based on 20,096 babies named Cortney in Social Security records from 1943 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎 Rare
Peak Year
1,384 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Variant of COURTNEY.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Cortney in English. Counting Cortney and these spellings together, about 290,358 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
Of the babies given the name Cortney, 84.7% were girls and 15.3% were boys. The share has stayed close to this since the 1960s: 42% of the babies were girls then and 50.7% in the 2010s.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Cortney alive today is about 36 years old, and 82% are between 30 and 59. Half of them were between 32 and 42 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Cortney first appears in the records in 1943 and was given most often in 1990, to 1,384 babies. In 2025, 7 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1943 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Cortney has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #226, in 1990. Among boys, its best rank was #706, in 1977 and 1983.
| Girls | Boys | |
|---|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | Not ranked | #9,902 |
| Best rank | #226 (1990) | #706 (1977 and 1983) |
| Years in the top 100 | None | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #346 in the 1980s | #768 in the 1980s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Cortney alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Cortney were born in California than in any other state: about 1,316 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Cortney was given 2.2 times as often in Utah, 2.1 times in Arkansas and 2 times in Tennessee.
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