Kortland
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- KORT-lund
- US rank, 2025
- #9,710 for boys
Kortland is a boys' name. In 2025 it ranked 9,710th for boys in the US (7 babies).
What does Kortland mean?
Spelling of Cortland; 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.
Meaning borrowed from Cortland.
Is Kortland a girl's or a boy's name?
Kortland is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Kortland in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 9,710th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 7 about 1 in 240,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 7 boys in the US were named Kortland, making it the 9,710th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 10,599th. Its busiest year was 2011, with 17 boys. It first appears in the records in 1987.
Half of all the boys named Kortland in the US since 1880 were born between 1999 and 2014, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 65 boys in the US were given Kortland or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,889, up from #9,710 for this spelling alone.
Kortland in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #9,710 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 7 | #9,709 |
| 2020 | 6 | #10,599 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 8 | #8,811 |
| 2015 | 7 | #9,562 |
| 2014 | 11 | #7,043 |
| 2013 | 5 | #12,129 |
| 2012 | 10 | #7,553 |
| 2011 | 17 | #5,196 |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 7 | #9,859 |
| 2008 | 5 | #12,546 |
| 2007 | 6 | #10,915 |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 8 | #7,636 |
| 2001 | 7 | #8,332 |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 9 | #6,524 |
| 1998 | 8 | #6,837 |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 0 | – |
| 1995 | 7 | #6,985 |
| 1994 | 6 | #7,764 |
| 1993 | 0 | – |
| 1992 | 6 | #7,414 |
| 1991 | 0 | – |
| 1990 | 0 | – |
| 1989 | 0 | – |
| 1988 | 0 | – |
| 1987 | 5 | #6,945 |
Nicknames for Kortland
- Cort 14 boys in the US in 2025
Names like Kortland
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Kayden, Kian, Kylan, Kayson, Kyson, Legend, Kyrie, Kingston, Kyaire, Axel, Kyler, Aiden
Other spellings of Kortland
Names related to Kortland
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, “Kortland: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/kortland, updated 20 October 2026.