Cortland

Last seen for girls in 2024 at #15,293 · #3,949 for boys in 2025, 27 births
Given to boys 97.8% of the time

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Peak · boys
#1,557
1991 · 55 births
Debut · boys
1913
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
2,145
since 1913

Cortland over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Cortland has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201913peak #1,557, 1991boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025—#3,94927
2024#15,2935#5,24118
2023—#3,88328
2022—#3,69130
2021#12,2067#4,78020
2020—#3,81127
2019#15,5395#4,33723
2018—#2,89341
2017—#3,78128
2016—#3,11137
2015—#2,64146
2014#16,5135#2,80542
2013—#2,46150
2012#16,8695#2,71644
2011—#2,12962
2010—#2,57947
2009#17,2945#3,04538
2008—#3,48631
2007—#3,31333
2006—#3,88825
2005—#3,38929
2004—#4,26420
2003—#2,78035
2002—#2,37243
2001—#2,74234
2000—#2,42539
1999—#1,82454
1998—#1,89951
1997—#1,79053
1996#13,5185#1,69056
1995#13,3865#1,73651
1994#10,5697#1,77349
1993—#2,05039
1992—#1,65952
1991—#1,55755
1990—#2,17033
1989—#2,10633
1988—#2,19728
1987—#1,97431
1986—#2,29024
1985—#3,21614
1984—#2,43720
1983—#3,63011
1982—#2,97215
1981—#3,85810
1980—#4,1349
1979—#4,4038
1978—#4,5547
1977—#2,79115
1976—#4,4187
1975—#3,6599
1974—#4,1907
1973—#5,1015
1972—#2,81912
1971—#3,9637
1970—#3,2829
1969—#4,4045
1968—#3,3657
1967—#2,47011
1966—#2,7849
1965—#2,08415
1964—#3,6016
1963—#2,8589
1962—#3,3057
1961—#2,32213
1960—#3,3377
1959—#3,6196
1958—#3,5596
1957—#3,2577
1956—#2,62810
1955—#3,5056
1954—#2,59210
1953—#2,28712
1952—#2,51410
1951—#2,49510
1950—#3,0217
1949—#2,8028
1948—#2,02714
1947—#2,6719
1946—#2,6908
1945—#2,5748
1944—#2,30910
1943—#3,5385
1942—#2,26811
1941—#3,5055
1940—#2,4789
1939——
1938—#2,6468
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1936—#2,8547
1935—#2,12712
1934—#2,5639
1933—#3,6425
1932—#3,0927
1931—#2,8648
1930—#2,29312
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1928—#2,8439
1927—#3,1518
1926—#3,1398
1925—#2,75510
1924—#3,5057
1923—#2,77210
1922—#3,8726
1921—#3,2148
1920—#3,4897
1919—#3,1158
1918—#2,8829
1917—#2,09114
1916—#2,54310
1915—#2,18412
1914—#1,60815
1913—#2,8215
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First appearance
1913

The first year at least five boys were named Cortland! It came in at #2,821, and was given to 5 baby boys.

Quietest stretch: 1929, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.

Where Cortland is popular in 1913

No state had 5 or more boys named Cortland in 1913, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Cortland
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 1,292 spots since 2024 (#5,241 → #3,949)
  • 138 spots since 2020 (#3,811 → #3,949)
  • 1,308 spots since 2015 (#2,641 → #3,949)
Rise & fade · boys
78 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1913
  • Peaked 1991 at #1,557 (55 births)
  • Births halved by 2004, 13 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 30,633
  • Highest: 1 in 30,633 boys born in 2011 were named Cortland (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 63,262 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #1,557 in 1991, was only 1 in 36,733 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 1990s
  • 23.0% of all boys named Cortland (493) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1910s73#1,608 (1914)#2,463
1920s73#2,755 (1925)#3,193
1930s68#2,127 (1935)#2,760
1940s87#2,027 (1948)#2,686
1950s84#2,287 (1953)#2,948
1960s89#2,084 (1965)#3,053
1970s86#2,791 (1977)#3,918
1980s195#1,974 (1987)#2,881
1990s493#1,557 (1991)#1,815
2000s327#2,372 (2002)#3,170
2010s420#2,129 (2011)#2,945
2020s150#3,691 (2022)#4,226

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.

Cortland in 1913

boys
#2,821
5 births · 1 in 102,513 boys

Top boys' names in 1913

  1. #1John29,329
  2. #2William23,538
  3. #3James20,832
  4. #4Robert15,684
  5. #5Joseph14,471
  6. #6George13,874
  7. #7Charles13,191
  8. #8Edward9,474
  9. #9Frank9,237
  10. #10Thomas7,096
  11. #2,821Cortland5
More about 1913

boys

512,566 boys got a published name in 1913; 1 in 102,513 of them was named Cortland, which outranked 13.5% of the 3,261 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 30.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Cortland
  1. #2,496Zaragoza6
  2. #2,496Zenon6
  3. #2,496Zollie6
  4. #2,821Cortland5
  5. #2,821Abb5
  6. #2,821Abbott5
  7. #2,821Abney5

Tied with 440 names at #2,821; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1912
Risers
  1. ↑ 1,050Mathias#1,885 → #835
  2. ↑ 935Hymen#1,885 → #950
  3. ↑ 796Waldemar#1,746 → #950
  4. ↑ 751Rolf#1,746 → #995
  5. ↑ 689Domenico#1,619 → #930
Fallers
  1. ↓ 975Holland#970 → #1,945
  2. ↓ 885Cameron#918 → #1,803
  3. ↓ 868Larue#935 → #1,803
  4. ↓ 726Irene#854 → #1,580
  5. ↓ 688Hughie#892 → #1,580

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1913 →