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Courtnee vs Courtni

American parents have registered 1,636 Courtnees since 1880, against 937 Courtnis. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Courtnee against Courtni, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Courtnee Courtni

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 46 years in which either name was published, Courtnee for 40 years and Courtni for 6 years. The lead changed hands 9 times.

Side by side

  Courtnee Courtni
Total US births 1,636937
Most in one year 12863
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 1,600910
Median age today 3234
Peak year 19901990
Best rank 1,272nd girls2,081st girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19741974
Girls / boys 1,627 / 9937 / 0

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 Courtnis alive today are over 34; half the Courtnees are over 32. That is 2 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Courtnee Courtni
England and Wales 187

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Courtnee and Courtni.