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Kourtnee vs Kourtni

American parents have registered 818 Kourtnis since 1880, against 697 Kourtnees. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Kourtnee against Kourtni, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Kourtnee Kourtni

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, Kourtni for 27 years and Kourtnee for 19 years. The lead changed hands 19 times.

14 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

  Kourtnee Kourtni
Total US births 697818
Most in one year 3883
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 690800
Median age today 2629
Peak year 19931990
Best rank 3,052nd girls1,755th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19811974
Girls / boys 697 / 0818 / 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 Kourtnis 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 Kourtni.