How popular is “Cortney” in the USA?

Number of people named “Cortney” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Cortney” 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 “Cortney” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Cortney” by birth year

This chart shows how “Cortney” 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
1943	5	0.000001771		5	-100%
1949	5	0.000001435		5	-100%
1953	6	0.000001557		6	-100%
1954	5	0.000001256		5	-100%
1955	6	0.000001494		6	-100%
1960	10	0.000002407		10	-100%
1961	9	0.000002173		9	-100%
1962	12	0.000002974		12	-100%
1963	17	0.000004295	5	12	-41%
1964	12	0.000003087		12	-100%
1965	22	0.000006068	10	12	-9%
1966	27	0.000007768	16	11	19%
1967	31	0.000009131	16	15	3%
1968	39	0.000011544	21	18	8%
1969	59	0.000016977	32	27	8%
1970	48	0.000013309	33	15	38%
1971	70	0.000020394	48	22	37%
1972	63	0.000020045	37	26	17%
1973	61	0.00002022	32	29	5%
1974	214	0.000070395	171	43	60%
1975	252	0.00008346	191	61	52%
1976	405	0.000133474	322	83	59%
1977	451	0.00014198	306	145	36%
1978	472	0.000148714	355	117	50%
1979	463	0.000139164	343	120	48%
1980	606	0.000175932	462	144	52%
1981	737	0.000213044	621	116	69%
1982	715	0.000203822	584	131	63%
1983	699	0.000201828	552	147	58%
1984	746	0.00021383	618	128	66%
1985	872	0.000244319	731	141	68%
1986	895	0.000251611	758	137	69%
1987	903	0.000250443	751	152	66%
1988	1104	0.000298779	953	151	73%
1989	1168	0.000303815	1024	144	75%
1990	1384	0.00035016	1261	123	82%
1991	1020	0.000261856	922	98	81%
1992	904	0.000235339	854	50	89%
1993	806	0.000213777	755	51	87%
1994	629	0.000169193	593	36	89%
1995	654	0.000178583	620	34	90%
1996	495	0.000135721	467	28	89%
1997	436	0.000120251	400	36	83%
1998	388	0.000105486	357	31	84%
1999	328	0.000088796	296	32	80%
2000	291	0.000076986	273	18	88%
2001	191	0.000051023	171	20	79%
2002	159	0.000042533	142	17	79%
2003	181	0.000047603	156	25	72%
2004	149	0.000038996	125	24	68%
2005	111	0.00002887	97	14	75%
2006	106	0.000026793	88	18	66%
2007	83	0.000020762	62	21	49%
2008	77	0.00001959	45	32	17%
2009	92	0.000024083	61	31	33%
2010	47	0.000012717	32	15	36%
2011	53	0.00001449	26	27	-2%
2012	39	0.000010663	19	20	-3%
2013	34	0.000009326	21	13	24%
2014	40	0.000010792	18	22	-10%
2015	33	0.000008917	15	18	-9%
2016	32	0.000008722	13	19	-19%
2017	26	0.00000727	17	9	31%
2018	14	0.000003982		14	-100%
2019	17	0.000004898	9	8	6%
2020	15	0.00000449	6	9	-20%
2021	12	0.000003542	5	7	-17%
2022	11	0.000003251		11	-100%
2023	18	0.000005436	5	13	-44%
2024	5	0.000001502		5	-100%

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