Kourtney

Where Kourtney comes from

The dictionaries list Kourtney as a given name — a unisex given name transferred from the surname, variant of Courtney — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • From a surname
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1964
    First appearance
    #6,767 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1979
    Kourtney Kardashian born
    American media personality, model and businesswoman
  3. 1990
    Peak, #403
    646 babies named Kourtney — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1994
    Kourtney Keegan born
    American tennis player
  5. 2001
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #750.
In the dictionary
  • A unisex given name transferred from the surname, variant of Courtney.
Namesakes
  • Kourtney Kardashian · American media personality, model and businesswoman, born 1979
  • Kourtney Keegan · American tennis player, born 1994
  • Kourtney Brown · American actor, born 1984
  • Kourtney Hansen · American stage actor, born 1980

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.