first name
CORTNEY
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 16,609 people named Cortney, 75.2% reported their origin as White, 16.8% as Black and 3.9% as two or more races. 87.6% are female. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Cortney peaked in 1990, when 1,384 babies got the name.
At least 20,096 babies have been given the name since 1943. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Cortney by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1980s, when it ranked #569. The largest share of babies named Cortney, 68.3%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Cortney is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Cortney has been most common in Utah (2.6×), Tennessee (1.8×), and Idaho (1.6×), and least common in Connecticut (0.3×).
16,520 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
Either side of Cortney
Spelled almost the same
8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Cortney, most common first.
Also a last name
As a last name, Cortney ranks #101,282 of 156,621, with 190 people. See Cortney as a last name
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