# Courteney (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/courteney/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 1,129 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 5 / 1,124 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 803, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1994 | 24 | 4,273 |
| 1995 | 170 | 1,057 |
| 1996 | 128 | 1,332 |
| 1997 | 54 | 2,431 |
| 1998 | 37 | 3,309 |
| 1999 | 59 | 2,444 |
| 2000 | 49 | 2,910 |
| 2001 | 30 | 4,124 |
| 2002 | 23 | 5,122 |
| 2003 | 24 | 5,119 |
| 2004 | 17 | 6,854 |
| 2005 | 13 | 8,442 |
| 2006 | 11 | 10,061 |
| 2007 | 8 | 12,948 |
| 2008 | 10 | 10,985 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1980 | 5 | 6,430 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 130 | 285 |
| 1997 | 137 | 275 |
| 1998 | 182 | 230 |
| 1999 | 92 | 349 |
| 2000 | 73 | 427 |
| 2001 | 56 | 514 |
| 2002 | 32 | 785 |
| 2003 | 32 | 818 |
| 2004 | 22 | 1,072 |
| 2005 | 18 | 1,295 |
| 2006 | 13 | 1,748 |
| 2007 | 3 | 5,201 |
| 2008 | 5 | 3,860 |
| 2009 | 5 | 3,936 |
| 2010 | 3 | 5,707 |

## People named Courteney

- Courteney Cox, American actress and producer (born 1964)
- Frederick Selous, British explorer, officer, hunter, and conservationist (1851–1917)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.