Cortland
Cortland reached its high-water mark in 2011 at number 2,129, and has been recorded 2,194 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 3,949th. About 1,900 Cortlands are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 26.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Cortland boys named Cortland
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 2,194
- Estimated living today
- 1,900
- Median age today
- 26
- Peak year
- 2011
- Best rank
- 2,129th
- Rank in 2025
- 3,949th
- First recorded
- 1913
- Girls / boys
- 49 / 2,145
How old the living Cortlands are
born that year still alive today
Of the 2,194 babies given the name since 1913, about 1,900 are alive — 84 in every hundred. Roughly 670 of them are children and 110 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1999 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where Cortland is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Cortland is most concentrated in Tennessee (7.3×), Texas (5.0×), California (1.3×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2011
The most popular boys’ names the year Cortland peaked:
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Cortland against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.