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Cortni

Gender
Girl
Say it
KORT-nee
Origin
French

Cortni is a girls' name of French origin. Too few babies were given it in the latest year to rank.

What does Cortni mean?

French: spelling of Kortni, itself a variant spelling of Courtney, from the Norman French place name Courtenay

Variant of Courtney, a surname from the Norman French place name Courtenay.

Meaning borrowed from Kortni.

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

Cortni is a girls' name.

How popular is Cortni in the US?

No girls in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 1990, with 52 girls. It first appears in the records in 1974.

Half of all the girls named Cortni in the US since 1880 were born between 1986 and 1997, the years shaded on the chart below.

1974Busiest: 52 in 19902022
Cortni in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20225#15,300
20210–
20200–
20190–
20180–
20170–
20160–
20150–
20140–
20130–
20120–
20110–
20108#12,270
20090–
200810#10,802
20078#12,671
20069#11,412
20056#14,495
20048#11,617
200314#7,575
200214#7,438
200129#4,205
200018#5,932
199924#4,571
199823#4,633
199733#3,445
199621#4,734
199531#3,487
199432#3,443
199340#2,933
199238#3,031
199145#2,654
199052#2,369
198945#2,522
198848#2,290
198734#2,850
198626#3,358
198529#3,083
198417#4,317
198321#3,686
198223#3,529
198119#4,004
198022#3,609
197918#4,051
19789#6,384
197715#4,424
197613#4,612
197511#5,159
19745#8,773

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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, “Cortni: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/cortni, updated 20 October 2026.