Kourtney
Feminine · “from Courtenay”
Kourtney is given to both — 13,925 girls and 840 boys since 1880. See Kourtney as a boy nameSee other names given to both
Kourtney is a respelling of Courtney, a Norman family name from Courtenay in France — and the family held land in England for eight centuries.
How old is the name Kourtney?
Kourtney first appears in US birth records in 1964 — 61 years ago. The typical Kourtney alive today was born around 1997, making them about 28 years old. About 13,500 people named Kourtney are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Kourtney most popular?
Kourtney peaked in 1990, reaching #403 nationally. Today it ranks #4460, 4,057 places below that high. See the whole 1990 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Courtenay to Kourtney
The story of Kourtney
The Courtenays came to England in the twelfth century and became earls of Devon; a branch held the county of Edessa in the crusader states. The surname moved into American given names in the 1970s, first for boys and then overwhelmingly for girls, and Kourtney with a k is a respelling from the later wave and from one particular television family.
Meaning
from Courtenay
From the place name Courtenay in the Loiret, from a Gallo-Roman personal name with a suffix meaning an estate. A separate folk reading as short nose exists for a branch of the family and is not the place name's origin.
How the name formed
- Courtenay
- Courtney
- Kourtney
Related forms: Courtney · Courtenay
Pronouncing Kourtney
KORT-nee
Two syllables, first stressed. Kourtney and Courtney are said identically.
Nicknames for Kourtney
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1964
- Most girls named
- 1996594 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #403reached in 1990
- Change vs 2024
- −31.1%31 in 2025, from 45
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Kourtney in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Courtney in English — spelling variant
- Courtenay in French — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, Florida, Georgia.
Kourtneys among us
people named Kourtney are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 51,847 born in 2025 was named Kourtney
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Kourtney
- #4460
- Kourtney on the 2025 chart
- #851
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Kourtney went to 31 girls in 2025, but Courtney is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 109, which makes it the 851st most-given girls’ name of the year — 3,609 places above the chart.
- Courtney78
- Kourtney31
About 1 girl in 14,746 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 51,847 for Kourtney itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Rosalee test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Kourtney's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Rosalee climbed just as high around 1938, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Rosalee's path sketches the road Kourtney is walking now.
Kourtney sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Kourtney is headed
Kourtney is easing off slowly — about 23% fewer babies a year by 2030 if the trend continues.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Kourtney beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Kourtney in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A settled place-name meaning with a documented Norman family behind it.
- Read correctly on sight by every English speaker.
- Court is a plain short form that works from childhood on.
- Courtney is the standard spelling and will be written for her constantly.
- It is strongly associated with one American decade and one television family.
- The k spelling reads as deliberately unconventional, which is the intention.
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Frequently asked
- How many Kourtneys are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 13,500 people named Kourtney are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Kourtney?
- Kourtney is one of 2 recorded spellings. Courtney is the more common one — 78 births in 2025 against 31 for Kourtney.
- How popular is the name Kourtney in 2025?
- Kourtney ranks #4460 among US girl names in 2025, with 31 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Kourtney?
- About 1 in every 51,847 US girls born in 2025 was named Kourtney — 31 in all.
- Will my child share the name Kourtney with classmates?
- Kourtney will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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