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How popular is “Courtney” in the USA?

Number of people named “Courtney” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Courtney” by birth year

This chart shows how “Courtney” 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
1881 6 0.000031138 6 100%
1882 5 0.00002257 5 100%
1883 7 0.000032266 7 100%
1884 5 0.000020537 5 -100%
1885 13 0.000053975 8 5 23%
1887 6 0.000024253 6 100%
1888 14 0.000046749 5 9 -29%
1889 11 0.000038069 11 -100%
1890 6 0.000019907 6 100%
1891 9 0.000031395 9 -100%
1892 6 0.000017944 6 100%
1894 8 0.00002362 8 -100%
1895 15 0.000042733 8 7 7%
1896 13 0.000036365 5 8 -23%
1897 14 0.000040351 8 6 14%
1898 12 0.000031458 5 7 -17%
1899 16 0.000047165 8 8 0%
1900 20 0.000044419 10 10 0%
1901 9 0.000026026 9 -100%
1902 5 0.000012929 5 -100%
1903 15 0.000039349 6 9 -20%
1904 7 0.000017349 7 -100%
1905 11 0.000025948 11 100%
1906 6 0.000014004 6 100%
1907 8 0.00001719 8 -100%
1908 11 0.000022511 11 -100%
1909 16 0.000031297 11 5 38%
1910 19 0.000032165 8 11 -16%
1911 14 0.00002173 9 5 29%
1912 32 0.000032387 9 23 -44%
1913 32 0.000028142 9 23 -44%
1914 45 0.000031772 19 26 -16%
1915 55 0.000030015 11 44 -60%
1916 54 0.000027915 18 36 -33%
1917 45 0.000022424 9 36 -60%
1918 55 0.000025333 11 44 -60%
1919 66 0.000031276 17 49 -48%
1920 70 0.000030937 22 48 -37%
1921 54 0.000023131 16 38 -41%
1922 63 0.000027521 15 48 -52%
1923 58 0.00002519 9 49 -69%
1924 65 0.000027292 16 49 -51%
1925 63 0.000027 13 50 -59%
1926 63 0.00002744 17 46 -46%
1927 57 0.000024576 14 43 -51%
1928 54 0.000023884 15 39 -44%
1929 68 0.00003102 10 58 -71%
1930 52 0.000023389 14 38 -46%
1931 58 0.000027561 58 -100%
1932 50 0.000023682 13 37 -48%
1933 31 0.000015504 31 -100%
1934 50 0.000024075 13 37 -48%
1935 51 0.000024403 8 43 -69%
1936 44 0.000021179 11 33 -50%
1937 56 0.000026283 12 44 -57%
1938 65 0.000029378 16 49 -51%
1939 43 0.000019515 15 28 -30%
1940 51 0.000022148 16 35 -37%
1941 59 0.000024216 25 34 -15%
1942 77 0.000028186 21 56 -45%
1943 82 0.000029052 25 57 -39%
1944 100 0.000037174 32 68 -36%
1945 102 0.000038448 29 73 -43%
1946 93 0.000029105 30 63 -35%
1947 130 0.000036088 41 89 -37%
1948 121 0.000035047 45 76 -26%
1949 114 0.000032714 38 76 -33%
1950 102 0.000029115 38 64 -25%
1951 115 0.000031218 38 77 -34%
1952 113 0.000029752 35 78 -38%
1953 105 0.000027247 30 75 -43%
1954 129 0.000032406 41 88 -36%
1955 122 0.000030385 48 74 -21%
1956 120 0.000029105 35 85 -42%
1957 129 0.000030699 53 76 -18%
1958 148 0.000035802 70 78 -5%
1959 141 0.000033911 61 80 -13%
1960 178 0.000042852 62 116 -30%
1961 242 0.000058422 101 141 -17%
1962 250 0.000061952 150 100 20%
1963 312 0.000078824 164 148 5%
1964 380 0.000097747 234 146 23%
1965 436 0.000120261 252 184 16%
1966 571 0.000164286 372 199 30%
1967 737 0.000217091 558 179 51%
1968 833 0.000246565 648 185 56%
1969 904 0.00026012 698 206 54%
1970 992 0.000275058 783 209 58%
1971 1058 0.000308243 834 224 58%
1972 878 0.000279351 671 207 53%
1973 1032 0.000342074 813 219 58%
1974 2708 0.00089079 2337 371 73%
1975 3182 0.001053854 2773 409 74%
1976 4158 0.001370333 3619 539 74%
1977 4605 0.001449712 3808 797 65%
1978 4809 0.001515185 4031 778 68%
1979 5125 0.001540427 4323 802 69%
1980 6478 0.001880676 5618 860 73%
1981 7374 0.002131599 6638 736 80%
1982 7863 0.002241472 7100 763 81%
1983 7456 0.002152836 6748 708 81%
1984 7923 0.002271011 7150 773 80%
1985 8261 0.002314583 7530 731 82%
1986 9900 0.002783183 9122 778 84%
1987 9668 0.002681374 8909 759 84%
1988 12887 0.003487645 12043 844 87%
1989 14245 0.003705344 13452 793 89%
1990 16055 0.004062009 15380 675 92%
1991 13976 0.003587946 13441 535 92%
1992 13023 0.003390282 12604 419 94%
1993 12947 0.003433963 12577 370 94%
1994 12345 0.003320643 12019 326 95%
1995 13050 0.003563476 12775 275 96%
1996 11597 0.003179704 11344 253 96%
1997 9279 0.002559195 9035 244 95%
1998 7789 0.002117608 7555 234 94%
1999 6750 0.001827353 6559 191 94%
2000 5424 0.001434957 5239 185 93%
2001 4350 0.001162048 4175 175 92%
2002 3723 0.00099591 3580 143 92%
2003 3483 0.00091602 3348 135 92%
2004 2906 0.000760549 2763 143 90%
2005 2336 0.000607567 2195 141 88%
2006 2004 0.000506548 1835 169 83%
2007 1669 0.000417492 1514 155 81%
2008 1414 0.000359736 1267 147 79%
2009 1199 0.00031386 1062 137 77%
2010 1026 0.000277617 900 126 75%
2011 882 0.000241129 753 129 71%
2012 776 0.000212174 639 137 65%
2013 681 0.000186797 558 123 64%
2014 551 0.000148663 419 132 52%
2015 485 0.000131049 374 111 54%
2016 457 0.000124567 347 110 52%
2017 359 0.000100386 277 82 54%
2018 279 0.000079354 202 77 45%
2019 242 0.000069722 190 52 57%
2020 219 0.000065558 157 62 43%
2021 177 0.000052244 123 54 39%
2022 178 0.000052614 121 57 36%
2023 143 0.000043187 105 38 47%
2024 137 0.00004116 99 38 45%

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