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Kourtnee vs Kourtney

American parents have registered 14,765 Kourtneys since 1880, against 697 Kourtnees. Kourtney is still ahead, with 40 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Kourtnee against Kourtney, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Kourtnee Kourtney

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

Kourtney has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1964 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2021, when Kourtnee had 9 and Kourtney had 64.

Side by side

  Kourtnee Kourtney
Total US births 69714,765
Most in one year 38682
Babies in 2025 under 540
Estimated living today 69014,000
Median age today 2629
Peak year 19931990
Best rank 3,052nd girls403rd girls
Rank in 2025 unranked4,460th
First recorded 19811964
Girls / boys 697 / 013,925 / 840

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 Kourtneys alive today are over 29; half the Kourtnees are over 26. That is 3 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: Kourtnee and Kourtney.