Court vs Courtenay
American parents have registered 1,435 Courtenays since 1880, against 334 Courts. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Court Courtenay
Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.
Who was ahead
Of the 75 years in which either name was published, Courtenay for 52 years and Court for 23 years. The lead changed hands 17 times.
15 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Court | Courtenay | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 334 | 1,435 |
| Most in one year | 15 | 78 |
| Babies in 2025 | under 5 | under 5 |
| Estimated living today | 290 | 1,300 |
| Median age today | 32 | 46 |
| Peak year | 1959 | 1966 |
| Best rank | 2,111th boys | 1,320th girls |
| Rank in 2025 | unranked | unranked |
| First recorded | 1924 | 1915 |
| Girls / boys | 0 / 334 | 1,189 / 246 |
A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.
Which name is older
Half of the Courtenays alive today are over 46; half the Courts are over 32. That is 14 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Court and Courtenay.