Courtney

25,782 people in the United States were counted with the surname Courtney in the 2020 census, making it the 1,335th most common in the country. That is about one person in 11,600.

By the numbers

People: 25,782
Rank: 1,335th
How common: 1 in 11,600
Per 100,000: 8.6

Where the name comes from

Origin Old French

Variant of Courtenay, an aristocratic Norman surname derived from place names in Normandy, from Latin Curtenus, a personal name from curtus (“short”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Courtney described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 81.5%
Black, not Hispanic 9.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.8%

Notable people called Courtney

Jai Courtney (born 1986)Australian actor
Joel Courtney (born 1996)American actor
Tom Courtney (1933–2023)American athletics competitor
Nicholas Courtney (1929–2011)British actor
Stephanie Courtney (born 1970)American actress and comedian
James Jude Courtney (born 1957)American actor and stunt performer
Joe Courtney (born 1953)United States Representative from Connecticut
Kate Courtney (born 1995)American cyclist

People named Courtney with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Courtney

Also a first name

Courtney has been given to 281,432 American babies as a first name since 1881, peaking in 1990. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.