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Courtnie vs Courtny

American parents have registered 2,114 Courtnies since 1880, against 504 Courtnys. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Courtnie Courtny

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

Courtnie has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1973 to 2017. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2008, when Courtnie had 11 and Courtny had 6.

Side by side

  Courtnie Courtny
Total US births 2,114504
Most in one year 13930
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 2,100490
Median age today 3333
Peak year 19941991
Best rank 1,239th girls3,540th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19731975
Girls / boys 2,114 / 0499 / 5

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.

Both names abroad

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

Country Courtnie Courtny
England and Wales 1148

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: Courtnie and Courtny.