girls:
44 births since 1994
#5672 (1st percentile)
boys:
2.1k births since 1913
#2745 (40th percentile)
overall:
2.1k births since 1913
#5644 (27th percentile)
The name Cortland is the #5,644 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,143 recorded births since 1913. This represents the 27.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 27.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,745 (40.1% percentile) for all time with 2,099 births since 1913. For girls, it ranks #5,672 (0.7% percentile) for all time with 44 births since 1994.
Cortland first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1913 (1913 for boys and 1994 for girls). Birth data for Cortland is available in 108 out of the 111 years between 1913 and 2023 (108 years for boys and 8 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Cortland has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 97.9% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Cortland reached its peak popularity in 1991, achieving the 6.6% percentile (ranked #710) with 26 births per million. The name was most common in 2011, with 31 births per million (ranked 6.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2014, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Cortland ranks #888 for boys (2.5% percentile) with 15 births per million, which is 50.1% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Cortland reached its peak popularity in 1994, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #843) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 2021, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2021.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Cortland".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Cortland. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 83.3% confident that Cortland is pronounced as KORT-luhnd, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is KORT-land, at 16.7% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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