Courtney
Courtney is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 99 births. Its best rank was 17th, in 1990, 1995.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 990.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 199015,380 births
- Best rank
- #17first in 1990
- Since 1881
- 281,315people given the name
The story in the numbers
258,319 girls have been named Courtney in the United States since 1881, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1990, with 15,380 births — 0.81% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 99 births in 2024, against 15,380 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1991, and the 1990s alone account for 44%. It has spent 60 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 27 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 22,996 boys have also been given it, 8.2% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Courtney | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 37 | |
| 1890s | 46 | |
| 1900s | 44 | |
| 1910s | 120 | |
| 1920s | 147 | |
| 1930s | 102 | |
| 1940s | 302 | |
| 1950s | 449 | |
| 1960s | 3,239 | |
| 1970s | 23,992 | |
| 1980s | 84,310 | |
| 1990s | 113,289 | |
| 2000s | 26,978 | |
| 2010s | 4,659 | |
| 2020s | 605 |
In 1990, its biggest year
Courtney was the 17th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1990 were Jessica, Ashley, Brittany, Amanda and Samantha. See all of 1990.
Names that rose and fell with Courtney
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Courtniepeak 1994
- Tyeshapeak 1991
- Tyneshapeak 1993
- Denishapeak 1994
- Tyeishapeak 1994
- Marquishapeak 1993
- Ronishapeak 1992
- Shantiapeak 1989
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.