Cort
#6,143 for boys in 2025, 14 births
- Peak · boys
- 1962 · 45 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,918since 1915
Cort over time
boys
Rank among boys' names. Cort has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #6,143 | 14 |
| 2024 | #5,659 | 16 |
| 2023 | #6,897 | 12 |
| 2022 | #5,874 | 15 |
| 2021 | #6,032 | 14 |
| 2020 | #4,698 | 20 |
| 2019 | #3,794 | 28 |
| 2018 | #5,540 | 16 |
| 2017 | #4,746 | 20 |
| 2016 | #3,990 | 26 |
| 2015 | #2,966 | 39 |
| 2014 | #2,985 | 38 |
| 2013 | #2,895 | 39 |
| 2012 | #2,905 | 40 |
| 2011 | #2,261 | 57 |
| 2010 | #3,308 | 33 |
| 2009 | #2,894 | 41 |
| 2008 | #2,753 | 44 |
| 2007 | #2,643 | 46 |
| 2006 | #3,153 | 34 |
| 2005 | #2,493 | 45 |
| 2004 | #2,697 | 39 |
| 2003 | #2,180 | 50 |
| 2002 | #2,092 | 51 |
| 2001 | #2,306 | 43 |
| 2000 | #1,944 | 53 |
| 1999 | #2,398 | 37 |
| 1998 | #3,017 | 26 |
| 1997 | #3,601 | 19 |
| 1996 | #2,332 | 34 |
| 1995 | #2,400 | 32 |
| 1994 | #3,215 | 21 |
| 1993 | #2,050 | 39 |
| 1992 | #2,599 | 27 |
| 1991 | #2,753 | 24 |
| 1990 | #2,308 | 30 |
| 1989 | #2,989 | 20 |
| 1988 | #2,090 | 30 |
| 1987 | #2,942 | 17 |
| 1986 | #3,653 | 12 |
| 1985 | #4,333 | 9 |
| 1984 | #3,701 | 11 |
| 1983 | #3,071 | 14 |
| 1982 | #3,108 | 14 |
| 1981 | #3,858 | 10 |
| 1980 | #2,536 | 19 |
| 1979 | #3,569 | 11 |
| 1978 | #2,375 | 19 |
| 1977 | #1,904 | 26 |
| 1976 | #3,095 | 12 |
| 1975 | #3,941 | 8 |
| 1974 | #3,120 | 11 |
| 1973 | #2,036 | 20 |
| 1972 | #2,418 | 15 |
| 1971 | #2,366 | 16 |
| 1970 | #2,509 | 14 |
| 1969 | #1,977 | 18 |
| 1968 | #1,962 | 17 |
| 1967 | #2,352 | 12 |
| 1966 | #1,613 | 23 |
| 1965 | #1,360 | 32 |
| 1964 | #1,729 | 21 |
| 1963 | #1,659 | 23 |
| 1962 | #1,147 | 45 |
| 1961 | #1,552 | 27 |
| 1960 | #2,042 | 16 |
| 1959 | #1,916 | 18 |
| 1958 | #1,766 | 20 |
| 1957 | #2,274 | 13 |
| 1956 | #1,676 | 22 |
| 1955 | #2,219 | 13 |
| 1954 | #1,956 | 16 |
| 1953 | #1,900 | 17 |
| 1952 | #1,406 | 29 |
| 1951 | #1,972 | 15 |
| 1950 | #3,329 | 6 |
| 1949 | #2,802 | 8 |
| 1948 | #3,668 | 5 |
| 1947 | #2,671 | 9 |
| 1946 | #2,690 | 8 |
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| 1944 | #3,430 | 5 |
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| 1942 | #3,560 | 5 |
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| 1915 | #3,825 | 5 |
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First appearance
1915
The first year at least five boys were named Cort! It came in at #3,825, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1915–1945, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
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Momentum · boys
Falling
- 484 spots since 2024 (#5,659 → #6,143)
- 1,445 spots since 2020 (#4,698 → #6,143)
- 3,177 spots since 2015 (#2,966 → #6,143)
Rise & fade · boys
47 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1915
- Peaked 1962 at #1,147 (45 births)
- Births halved by 1964, 2 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 33,320
- Highest: 1 in 33,320 boys born in 2011 were named Cort (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 122,005 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,147 in 1962, was only 1 in 45,973 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2000s
- 23.3% of all boys named Cort (446) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 5 | #3,825 (1915) | #3,825 |
| 1920s | 0 | — | — |
| 1930s | 0 | — | — |
| 1940s | 40 | #2,671 (1947) | #3,137 |
| 1950s | 169 | #1,406 (1952) | #2,041 |
| 1960s | 234 | #1,147 (1962) | #1,739 |
| 1970s | 152 | #1,904 (1977) | #2,733 |
| 1980s | 156 | #2,090 (1988) | #3,228 |
| 1990s | 289 | #2,050 (1993) | #2,667 |
| 2000s | 446 | #1,944 (2000) | #2,516 |
| 2010s | 336 | #2,261 (2011) | #3,539 |
| 2020s | 91 | #4,698 (2020) | #5,884 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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