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How popular is “Cortland” in the USA?

Number of people named “Cortland” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Cortland” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Cortland” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Cortland” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Cortland” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Cortland” by birth year

This chart shows how “Cortland” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1913 5 0.000004397 5 -100%
1914 15 0.000010591 15 -100%
1915 12 0.000006549 12 -100%
1916 10 0.00000517 10 -100%
1917 14 0.000006976 14 -100%
1918 9 0.000004145 9 -100%
1919 8 0.000003791 8 -100%
1920 7 0.000003094 7 -100%
1921 8 0.000003427 8 -100%
1922 6 0.000002621 6 -100%
1923 10 0.000004343 10 -100%
1924 7 0.000002939 7 -100%
1925 10 0.000004286 10 -100%
1926 8 0.000003484 8 -100%
1927 8 0.000003449 8 -100%
1928 9 0.000003981 9 -100%
1930 12 0.000005397 12 -100%
1931 8 0.000003802 8 -100%
1932 7 0.000003316 7 -100%
1933 5 0.000002501 5 -100%
1934 9 0.000004334 9 -100%
1935 12 0.000005742 12 -100%
1936 7 0.000003369 7 -100%
1938 8 0.000003616 8 -100%
1940 9 0.000003908 9 -100%
1941 5 0.000002052 5 -100%
1942 11 0.000004027 11 -100%
1943 5 0.000001771 5 -100%
1944 10 0.000003717 10 -100%
1945 8 0.000003016 8 -100%
1946 8 0.000002504 8 -100%
1947 9 0.000002498 9 -100%
1948 14 0.000004055 14 -100%
1949 8 0.000002296 8 -100%
1950 7 0.000001998 7 -100%
1951 10 0.000002715 10 -100%
1952 10 0.000002633 10 -100%
1953 12 0.000003114 12 -100%
1954 10 0.000002512 10 -100%
1955 6 0.000001494 6 -100%
1956 10 0.000002425 10 -100%
1957 7 0.000001666 7 -100%
1958 6 0.000001451 6 -100%
1959 6 0.000001443 6 -100%
1960 7 0.000001685 7 -100%
1961 13 0.000003138 13 -100%
1962 7 0.000001735 7 -100%
1963 9 0.000002274 9 -100%
1964 6 0.000001543 6 -100%
1965 15 0.000004137 15 -100%
1966 9 0.000002589 9 -100%
1967 11 0.00000324 11 -100%
1968 7 0.000002072 7 -100%
1969 5 0.000001439 5 -100%
1970 9 0.000002495 9 -100%
1971 7 0.000002039 7 -100%
1972 12 0.000003818 12 -100%
1973 5 0.000001657 5 -100%
1974 7 0.000002303 7 -100%
1975 9 0.000002981 9 -100%
1976 7 0.000002307 7 -100%
1977 15 0.000004722 15 -100%
1978 7 0.000002206 7 -100%
1979 8 0.000002405 8 -100%
1980 9 0.000002613 9 -100%
1981 10 0.000002891 10 -100%
1982 15 0.000004276 15 -100%
1983 11 0.000003176 11 -100%
1984 20 0.000005733 20 -100%
1985 14 0.000003923 14 -100%
1986 24 0.000006747 24 -100%
1987 31 0.000008598 31 -100%
1988 28 0.000007578 28 -100%
1989 33 0.000008584 33 -100%
1990 33 0.000008349 33 -100%
1991 55 0.00001412 55 -100%
1992 52 0.000013537 52 -100%
1993 39 0.000010344 39 -100%
1994 56 0.000015063 7 49 -75%
1995 56 0.000015292 5 51 -82%
1996 61 0.000016725 5 56 -84%
1997 53 0.000014618 53 -100%
1998 51 0.000013865 51 -100%
1999 54 0.000014619 54 -100%
2000 39 0.000010318 39 -100%
2001 34 0.000009083 34 -100%
2002 43 0.000011503 43 -100%
2003 35 0.000009205 35 -100%
2004 20 0.000005234 20 -100%
2005 29 0.000007543 29 -100%
2006 25 0.000006319 25 -100%
2007 33 0.000008255 33 -100%
2008 31 0.000007887 31 -100%
2009 43 0.000011256 5 38 -77%
2010 47 0.000012717 47 -100%
2011 62 0.00001695 62 -100%
2012 49 0.000013398 5 44 -80%
2013 50 0.000013715 50 -100%
2014 47 0.000012681 5 42 -79%
2015 46 0.000012429 46 -100%
2016 37 0.000010085 37 -100%
2017 28 0.00000783 28 -100%
2018 41 0.000011661 41 -100%
2019 28 0.000008067 5 23 -64%
2020 26 0.000007783 26 -100%
2021 27 0.000007969 7 20 -48%
2022 30 0.000008868 30 -100%
2023 28 0.000008456 28 -100%
2024 23 0.00000691 5 18 -57%

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