Cortney
- Pronunciation
- [Cor-tney]
- Gender
- Female
- Meaning
- Courtly: Courteous.
- Origin
- English
Cortney Popularity Snapshot
Across the entire US Social Security Administration record (1880–2024), 16,923 baby girls have been named Cortney. The name peaked in 1990 with 1,261 US births that year (rank #226).
Top States for Cortney
Based on 1910–2024 US SSA state-level records, the three states with the most Cortney births are: California (1,288), Texas (1,133), Ohio (1,022).
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7-Letter Names Starting with C
Names with Cortney's exact length and starting letter: Cadabyr, Cadassi, Cadence, Cadenza, Caedmon.
Quick Facts About Cortney
US Popularity History (2000–2000)
Annual US births named Cortney by gender, from US Social Security Administration records. Peak year: 2000 with 273 girls named Cortney (girl rank #825 that year).
Source: US Social Security Administration. Limitations: US birth-certificate data only; names appearing fewer than 5 times in a given year are suppressed for privacy; spelling variants are counted separately. For names that ranked outside the US top 100 before year 2000, only the years they reached the top 100 are shown — the chart may have gaps for less-popular historical names.
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Where in the US Is Cortney Most Popular?
Average girl-name rank within each state across 2000–2009 SSA records. A lower number means the name appears closer to the top of that state's girls-name rankings — a per-capita measure that isn't biased toward large states. For Cortney the strongest states are Utah, Kentucky, Missouri.
Strongest girls-name states
Source: SSA state-level baby-name dataset 2000–2009. States with fewer than 3 years of data for Cortney in this window are excluded. Births < 5 in a given state-year are suppressed by SSA for privacy.
Variant Forms
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Compare Cortney to Other Popular Names
Side-by-side popularity charts and crossover years for Cortney against today's most popular girls-name peers (top 8 by US births in the last 10 years of SSA records).