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Cortland

Gender
Boy
Say it
KORT-lund
US rank, 2025
#3,948 for boys

Cortland is a boys' name. In 2025 it ranked 3,948th for boys in the US (27 babies).

What does Cortland mean?

Dutch, from the New York family name Van Cortlandt

Cortland County, New York, was named after Pierre Van Cortlandt, the state's first lieutenant governor; the Cortland apple takes its name from it.

Is Cortland a girl's or a boy's name?

Cortland is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 27 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.

How popular is Cortland in the US?

Rank in 2025
3,948th among boys
Babies in 2025
27 about 1 in 63,000 boys
Five-year trend
Steady down 20% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 27 boys in the US were named Cortland, making it the 3,948th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 3,808th. Its busiest year was 2011, with 62 boys. It first appears in the records in 1913.

Half of all the boys named Cortland in the US since 1880 were born between 1977 and 2010, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 65 boys in the US were given Cortland or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,889, up from #3,948 for this spelling alone.

1913Busiest: 62 in 20112025
Cortland in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
202527#3,948
202418#5,237
202328#3,880
202230#3,689
202120#4,776
202027#3,808
201923#4,333
201841#2,892
201728#3,777
201637#3,110
201546#2,640
201442#2,803
201350#2,460
201244#2,715
201162#2,128
201047#2,578
200938#3,044
200831#3,483
200733#3,311
200625#3,886
200529#3,385
200420#4,259
200335#2,776
200243#2,368
200134#2,737
200039#2,421
199954#1,821
199851#1,896
199753#1,787
199656#1,687
199551#1,731
199449#1,768
199339#2,045
199252#1,654
199155#1,551
199033#2,165
198933#2,100
198828#2,192
198731#1,970
198624#2,288
198514#3,213
198420#2,436
198311#3,629
198215#2,971
198110#3,856
19809#4,133
19798#4,401
19787#4,552
197715#2,790
19767#4,416
19759#3,657
19747#4,188
19735#5,099
197212#2,817
19717#3,961
19709#3,280
19695#4,403
19687#3,364
196711#2,469
19669#2,783
196515#2,083
19646#3,600
19639#2,857
19627#3,303
196113#2,321
19607#3,335
19596#3,618
19586#3,557
19577#3,255
195610#2,626
19556#3,503
195410#2,591
195312#2,286
195210#2,512
195110#2,493
19507#3,020
19498#2,801
194814#2,026
19479#2,670
19468#2,689
19458#2,573
194410#2,308
19435#3,536
194211#2,267
19415#3,504
19409#2,478
19390–
19388#2,646
19370–
19367#2,853
193512#2,127
19349#2,563
19335#3,640
19327#3,091
19318#2,863
193012#2,292
19290–
19289#2,842
19278#3,150
19268#3,137
192510#2,753
19247#3,504
192310#2,771
19226#3,870
19218#3,213
19207#3,488
19198#3,114
19189#2,881
191714#2,090
191610#2,542
191512#2,183
191415#1,607
19135#2,820

Nicknames for Cortland

Names like Cortland

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Caleb, Connor, Cooper, Carson, Colton, Carter, Christian, Corbin, Ryland, Logan, Noah, Colin

Other spellings of Cortland

Courtland, Kortland

Names related to Cortland

Kourtland

Sources

Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Cortland: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/cortland, updated 20 October 2026.