Kortney

Where Kortney comes from

Kortney hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1966
    First appearance
    #6,564 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1986
    Kortney Kane born
    American pornographic actress
  3. 1990
    Peak, #677
    316 babies named Kortney — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1995
    Kortney Hause born
    English association football player
  5. 2000
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,318.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Kortney Hause · English association football player, born 1995
  • Kortney Kane · American pornographic actress, born 1986
  • Kortney Olson · American bodybuilder, born 1981

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.