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Courtney
Pronounced /ˈkɔː(ɹ)tni/
Rank in 2024
#3,192
Born in 2024
38
Peak year
1980 · #256
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for girls:99 in 2024 (#1,987)
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 38 boys were named Courtney, about 1 in every 45,140.
- It peaked in 1980 with 860 babies, ranked #256.
- It first shows up in the records in 1884.
- 22,996 boys 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
- 0.2Gen X1965–80
- 0.3Millennials1981–96
- <0.1Gen Z1997–12
- <0.1Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 722 babies, 0.04 per 1,000. Silent: 818 babies, 0.04 per 1,000. Boomers: 1,730 babies, 0.05 per 1,000. Gen X: 6,368 babies, 0.23 per 1,000. Millennials: 9,738 babies, 0.32 per 1,000. Gen Z: 2,591 babies, 0.08 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 936 babies, 0.04 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.