Kourtnie
Feminine · “from Courtenay”
Kourtnie is one of at least six American spellings of a single Norman surname, and none of them changes the sound. The word at the front of it names the place a particular game was first played, and that game's scoring system has never been explained.
How old is the name Kourtnie?
Kourtnie first appears in US birth records in 1975 — 50 years ago. The typical Kourtnie alive today was born around 1996, making them about 29 years old. About 700 people named Kourtnie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Kourtnie most popular?
Kourtnie peaked in 1990, reaching #2799 nationally. See the whole 1990 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Courtenay to Kourtnie
The story of Kourtnie
Tennis is scored fifteen, thirty, forty, game, and nobody knows why. The leading explanation is a clock face: the hand moved a quarter for each point, and forty is a worn-down forty-five. The trouble is that mechanical clocks with minute hands were not common when the scoring is first recorded. The rival explanation is money — the jeu de paume was played for a stake, and a French coin called the gros denier tournois was worth fifteen deniers, so points were counted in coins. Deuce is à deux, meaning two points needed. Love is usually said to be l'oeuf, an egg for a zero, which is charming and may be a nineteenth-century invention. The game was played in a courtyard, which is where the court comes from, and the surname in this name comes from the same French word by a different route.
Meaning
from Courtenay
The surname names a place in northern France, built on a Roman personal name with a suffix meaning an estate. This spelling changes three letters and none of the changes is audible.
How the name formed
- Courtenay
- Courtney
- Kourtnie
Pronouncing Kourtnie
KORT-nee
Two syllables with the stress at the front. All three altered letters are silent changes; the name is said exactly as the standard spelling is.
Nicknames for Kourtnie
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
- 1975
- Most girls named
- 199041 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2799reached in 1990
- Change vs 2015
- −45.5%6 in 2017, from 11
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.
Kourtnies among us
people named Kourtnie are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Kourtnie sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- The sound is entirely familiar, so nobody has to be taught it.
- Two syllables with front stress is easy and quick.
- The place behind it is real and the descent is documented.
- Courtney, Kourtney and Kortney are all recorded and will be written for it.
- Three silent changes mean the spelling must be given aloud letter by letter.
- The sound is very common as a name, so it is not distinctive in speech.
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- How many Kourtnies are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 700 people named Kourtnie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
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- Kourtnie is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
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- Kourtnie will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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