Courtland
Courtland is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 38 births. Its best rank was 947th, in 1888.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 380.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1996119 births
- Best rank
- #947in 1888
- Since 1886
- 4,069people given the name
The story in the numbers
3,824 boys have been named Courtland in the United States since 1886, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1996, with 119 births.
This is a comeback. After an early peak the name fell to a fraction of its former share, and it has been climbing again for the past decade.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1991, and the 1990s alone account for 26%. It has spent 4 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 245 girls have also been given it, 6.0% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Courtland | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 11 | |
| 1900s | 6 | |
| 1910s | 131 | |
| 1920s | 199 | |
| 1930s | 146 | |
| 1940s | 177 | |
| 1950s | 172 | |
| 1960s | 174 | |
| 1970s | 316 | |
| 1980s | 470 | |
| 1990s | 1,000 | |
| 2000s | 453 | |
| 2010s | 399 | |
| 2020s | 170 |
In 1996, its biggest year
Courtland was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1996 were Michael, Matthew, Jacob, Christopher and Joshua. See all of 1996.
Names that rose and fell with Courtland
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Silvestrepeak 1994
- Nestorpeak 1991
- Salvadorpeak 1992
- Bernardopeak 1995
- Isidropeak 2000
- Franciscopeak 1993
- Carlinpeak 1992
- Celsopeak 2006
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.