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Kourtney vs Kourtni

American parents have registered 14,765 Kourtneys since 1880, against 818 Kourtnis. Kourtney is still ahead, with 40 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Kourtney 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

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 2019, when Kourtney had 120 and Kourtni had 19.

Side by side

  Kourtney Kourtni
Total US births 14,765818
Most in one year 68283
Babies in 2025 40under 5
Estimated living today 14,000800
Median age today 2929
Peak year 19901990
Best rank 403rd girls1,755th girls
Rank in 2025 4,460thunranked
First recorded 19641974
Girls / boys 13,925 / 840818 / 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.

Where each one is strongest

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

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