Cortland
Cortland is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 18 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 180.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 201162 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1913
- 2,166people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,117 boys have been named Cortland in the United States since 1913, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2011, with 62 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1996, and the 1990s alone account for 23%.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 49 girls have also been given it, 2.3% of the total.
By decade
| Decade | boys named Cortland | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 73 | |
| 1920s | 73 | |
| 1930s | 68 | |
| 1940s | 87 | |
| 1950s | 84 | |
| 1960s | 89 | |
| 1970s | 86 | |
| 1980s | 195 | |
| 1990s | 493 | |
| 2000s | 327 | |
| 2010s | 420 | |
| 2020s | 122 |
In 2011, its biggest year
Cortland was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 2011 were Jacob, Mason, William, Jayden and Noah. See all of 2011.
Names that rose and fell with Cortland
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Alstonpeak 2017
- Gavinopeak 2008
- Quintonpeak 1996
- Robinsonpeak 2014
- Ishmaelpeak 2017
- Alexanderpeak 1993
- Rayvonpeak 2001
- Quentinpeak 1998
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.