Cortney

Where Cortney comes from

Cortney hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1963
    First appearance
    #6,592 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1972
    Cortney Tidwell born
    singer-songwriter
  3. 1990
    Peak, #226
    1,261 babies named Cortney — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1994
    Cortney Mansour born
    Canadian ice dancer
  5. 1994
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #423.
  6. 2020
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Cortney Mansour · Canadian ice dancer, born 1994
  • Cortney Tidwell · singer-songwriter, born 1972

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.