Given name & surname
Kortney
“one who is polite; courteous”
Kortney is a variant of Kourtney. One American interpretation is “one who is polite; courteous.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Kortney is a variant of Kourtney. One American interpretation is “one who is polite; courteous.”
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1966. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Kortney through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 5,749
- 436 boys · 5,313 girls
- Most popular year
- 1990
- 335 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −82%
- Cooling
Boys, girls and both
The balance of boys and girls given this name has shifted over time. Recent births are 0% boys.
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2023. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 316 in 1990. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 4,924 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Kortney’s family of names
Kortney has a related form in Kourtney. In English usage, Kortney has a conventional equivalent in the Russian form Кортни.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Kortney
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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