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Courtney
Pronounced /ˈkɔː(ɹ)tni/
Rank in 2024
#1,987
Born in 2024
99
Peak year
1990 · #17
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for boys:38 in 2024 (#3,192)
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 99 girls were named Courtney, about 1 in every 16,295.
- It peaked in 1990 with 15,380 babies, ranked #17.
- It first shows up in the records in 1881.
- 258,319 girls have been named Courtney since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Courtney per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- <0.1Greatest1901–27
- <0.1Silent1928–45
- <0.1Boomers1946–64
- 1.3Gen X1965–80
- 6.0Millennials1981–96
- 1.8Gen Z1997–12
- 0.1Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 276 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Silent: 275 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Boomers: 1,314 babies, 0.04 per 1,000. Gen X: 32,138 babies, 1.26 per 1,000. Millennials: 168,832 babies, 5.98 per 1,000. Gen Z: 52,419 babies, 1.80 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 2,972 babies, 0.15 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
Variant of Courtenay, an aristocratic Norman surname derived from place names in Normandy, from Latin Curtenus, a personal name from curtus (“short”).
- A male given name transferred from the surname.
- A female given name transferred from the surname, popular in the 1980s and the 1990s.
- Origin
- Not recorded
- Say it
- /ˈkɔː(ɹ)tni/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Courtney, CC BY-SA 4.0.