Courtney is a distinctive choice, ranked #2278 in 2025. Your child is likely to be the only Courtney in their class.
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UK Rank 2025
#2278
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About the Name Courtney
Courtney has seen a notable decline in recent years, dropping 830 places in five years. It was most popular in 1998 at #17 â parents choosing it today are making a deliberately counter-trend decision. The name has been a consistent presence in UK records since 1996. It has featured in the UK top 100 for 13 years, demonstrating solid mainstream recognition.
Courtney is rare in the UK, so your child is very likely to be the only Courtney in their class.
â Famous People Named Courtney
Courtney Grosbeck â Courtney Grosbeck is an American actor and model best known for playing the role of Coco Spectra in the soap The Bold and the Beautiful and Rachel Sachs in the series Lincoln Rhyme: Hunt for the Bone Collector.
Courtney Lawes â Courtney Linford Lawes is an English professional rugby union player who plays as a flanker for Pro D2 club Brive and formerly for the England national team.
Biographical summaries are shortened from Wikipedia and are used under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence; those summaries remain available under that same licence.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about the name Courtney
Unlikely. With around 12 UK babies named Courtney per year, your child will almost certainly be the only Courtney in their class, and possibly the only one in the whole school.
Courtney is declining: down 1,213 places since 2020, to #2,278 in 2025. It peaked at #17 in 1998.
Courtney is a distinctive choice sitting outside the mainstream UK top names. Parents choosing less common names often find their children appreciate the individuality as they grow up, rarely needing to add an initial to distinguish themselves.
Notable people named Courtney include: Courtney Grosbeck, Courtney Lawes and Courtney Thorne-Smith. Short summaries for each appear below.
Courtney does not appear in the US top 1,000 baby names, making it a distinctively British choice â your child is unlikely to encounter American Courtneys in the wild.
12
UK babies named Courtney (2025)
< 1
Expected classmates with this name (class of 28)
~0.0
In a school of 600
↓ 1213 places
Rank change (last 5 years)
🏫 Who else is in the room?
In a typical UK class of 28, highlighted children share the name Courtney
Almost certainly the only Courtney in the class
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UK Popularity (1996–2025)
Rank and birth count · ONS official data
No US data available for this name
✨ Similar names to Courtney
Names with a similar style — each with their own classroom story
Courtney Grosbeck is an American actor and model best known for playing the role of Coco Spectra in the soap The Bold and the Beautiful and Rachel Sachs in the series Lincoln Rhyme: Hunt for the Bone Collector.
Courtney Linford Lawes is an English professional rugby union player who plays as a flanker for Pro D2 club Brive and formerly for the England national team.
Elizabeth Courtney was the illegitimate daughter of the Whig politician and future Prime Minister Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, and socialite Georgiana Cavendish (nÊe Spencer), Duchess of Devonshire, while Georgiana was married to William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire.