girls:
189 births since 2008
#5527 (3rd percentile)
overall:
189 births since 2008
#7550 (2nd percentile)
The name Cortana is the #7,550 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 189 recorded births since 2008. This represents the 2.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 2.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,527 (3.3% percentile) for all time with 189 births since 2008.
Cortana first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2008 (first recorded for girls in 2008).
For girls, Cortana reached its peak popularity in 2015, achieving the 2.6% percentile (ranked #935) with 15 births per million. The name was most common in 2015, with 15 births per million (ranked 2.6% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Cortana ranks #946 for girls (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 22.3% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Cortana".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Cortana. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 41.0% confident that Cortana is pronounced as kor-TAH-nuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is kor-TA-nuh, at 28.2% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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