Courteney

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Courteney: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Courteney: Recorded every year since 1996, its highest recorded position is #186, and it was last ranked in 2010.

3registrars recorded it
24times a registrar ranked it
15years from first to last
#186highest recorded position
3groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2010

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#285
1997	#275
1998	#230
1999	#349
2000	#427
2001	#514
2002	#785
2003	#818
2004	#1072
2005	#1295
2006	#1748
2007	#5201
2008	#3860
2009	#3936
2010	#5707

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2010.

In 2003: #655 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #818 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1996–2010 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #285 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded1997–2000
Highest recorded position: #186 among girls in Northern Ireland, in 1997 (recorded 1997–2000).
Northern Ireland · Girls
Most recent2010
Most recently recorded at #5707 among girls in England and Wales, in 2010.
England and Wales · Girls

Courteney appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 15 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 803 births with the name.

Courteney across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Courteney's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#285 (1996)	#230 (1998)	#5707 (2010)	15 of 15	803 (1996–2010)	182 (1998)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#326 (1997)	#326 (1997)	#655 (2003)	5 of 7	22 (1997–2003)	9 (1997)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#186 (1997)	#186 (1997)	#248 (2000)	4 of 4	25 (1997–2000)	10 (1997)

Courteney by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Courteney in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	541	4 of 10	135
2000sbusiest	259	10 of 10	26
2010s	3	1 of 10	3

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 26 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 1998 and 1999, when recorded births fell by 90, from 182 to 92.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Courteney appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1996 to 2010. Highest recorded position: #186 in Northern Ireland in 1997.

Courteney's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2010	England and Wales	female	#5707	3	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#3936	5	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#3860	5	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#5201	3	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1748	13	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1295	18	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1072	22	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#818	32	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#785	32	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#514	56	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#427	73	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#349	92	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#230	182	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#275	137	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#285	130	High	Verified
2000	Northern Ireland	female	#248	5	High	Verified
1999	Northern Ireland	female	#344	3	High	Verified
1998	Northern Ireland	female	#213	7	High	Verified
1997	Northern Ireland	female	#186	10	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	female	#655	3	High	Verified
2001	Republic of Ireland	female	#606	3	High	Verified
1999	Republic of Ireland	female	#439	4	High	Verified
1998	Republic of Ireland	female	#498	3	High	Verified
1997	Republic of Ireland	female	#326	9	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1996 and 2010, ranked in 15 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #186, first reached in 1997.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 182 births, registered in England and Wales in 1998.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1997, and 1 year separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Cosmin · #500, 15y
Cosmo · #651, 30y
Courtney · #8, 41y
Cove · #432, 10y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Blain · #186, 13y
Deaglan · #186, 20y
Sarah-Louise · #186, 20y
Ruadh · #187, 12y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Coen · #186, 24y
Deaglan · #186, 20y
Lily-Mae · #186, 29y
Sarah-Louise · #186, 20y

Courteney was ranked #186 in Northern Ireland · Girls in 1997. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Courteney and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Courteney without appearing here.

Moved ahead of Courteney

Clodagh Compare
In 2006 they stood at #1748 and #1983 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2007 that had become #5201 and #1443.
Mona Compare
In 2006 they stood at #1748 and #2137 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2007 that had become #5201 and #1502.
Harper Compare
In 2006 they stood at #1748 and #2137 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2007 that had become #5201 and #1573.
Liv Compare
In 2006 they stood at #1748 and #2137 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2007 that had become #5201 and #1573.

Moved the opposite way to Courteney

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2010 in England and Wales · Girls, Courteney went from #285 to #5707 while Ada went from #2683 to #499.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2010 in England and Wales · Girls, Courteney went from #285 to #5707 while Alma went from #2096 to #1040.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2010 in England and Wales · Girls, Courteney went from #285 to #5707 while Alyssa went from #783 to #164.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2010 in England and Wales · Girls, Courteney went from #285 to #5707 while Amalie went from #2096 to #758.

Moved the same way as Courteney

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2010 in England and Wales · Girls, Courteney went from #285 to #5707 and Abigail from #21 to #34.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2010 in England and Wales · Girls, Courteney went from #285 to #5707 and Aisling from #440 to #1520.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2010 in England and Wales · Girls, Courteney went from #285 to #5707 and Alex from #161 to #674.
Alexandra Compare
Between 1996 and 2010 in England and Wales · Girls, Courteney went from #285 to #5707 and Alexandra from #38 to #97.

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1996 to 2010. Highest recorded position: #186 in Northern Ireland in 1997. Source data last verified 2026-07-22.

Courteney

Courteney at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Courteney across 3 official records

Courteney by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Courteney appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Courteney

Courteney and the names beside it

Moved ahead of Courteney

Moved the opposite way to Courteney

Moved the same way as Courteney

Courteney at a glance

Courteney across 3 official records

Courteney by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Courteney appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Courteney

Courteney and the names beside it

Moved ahead of Courteney

Moved the opposite way to Courteney

Moved the same way as Courteney