girls:
5.3k births since 1966
#2309 (60th percentile)
boys:
436 births since 1970
#4150 (9th percentile)
overall:
5.7k births since 1966
#3585 (54th percentile)
The name Kortney is the #3,585 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 5,748 recorded births since 1966. This represents the 53.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 53.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,309 (59.6% percentile) for all time with 5,312 births since 1966. For boys, it ranks #4,150 (9.4% percentile) for all time with 436 births since 1970.
Kortney first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1966 (1966 for girls and 1970 for boys). Birth data for Kortney is available in 56 out of the 58 years between 1966 and 2023 (56 years for girls and 34 years for boys). 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 Kortney has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 92.4% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Kortney reached its peak popularity in 1990, achieving the 34.5% percentile (ranked #565) with 154 births per million. The name was most common in 1990, with 154 births per million (ranked 34.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 1995, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Kortney ranks #947 for girls (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 1.9% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Kortney reached its peak popularity in 1978, achieving the 3.0% percentile (ranked #656) with 15 births per million. The name was most common in 1978, with 15 births per million (ranked 3.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2013.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kortney".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Kortney is pronounced as KORT-nee, which has 2 syllables.
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