Is Courtney a male or female name?
Courtney is predominantly associated with female records in the available name data. Without a country hint, NameGender returns female at 93%, based on 319,582 observations.
Result without a country hint
This is the response used when the request does not supply a country. It is a fallback, not a claim that every country has the same distribution.
- Association
- female
- Probability
- 93%
- Sample size
- 319,582
- Confidence
- high
Courtney by country
Only sources that publish observation counts appear in this table. The probability is the dominant-gender share within that country source; sample sizes from different countries cover different years and should not be treated as population rankings.
| Country | Association | Probability | Sample | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States US | female | 92% | 281,304 | ssa |
| England and Wales GB | female | 98% | 27,459 | ons |
| Canada CA | female | 99% | 9,699 | statcan |
| Ireland IE | female | 100% | 890 | cso |
| France FR | female | 100% | 135 | insee |
| Switzerland CH | female | 84% | 49 | bfs |
| Poland PL | female | 87% | 39 | pesel |
| Austria AT | female | 100% | 7 | statat |
Attested in 12 countries and territories
Presence means the name appears in a source for that country. Sources without counts cannot support a popularity share.
AT · AU · BE · CA · CH · FR · GB · IE · NZ · PL · SE · US
Courtney over time
In the United States, 40.7% of the babies named Courtney in the 1900s were girls, against 70.9% in the 2020s. The name has changed sides over time, so the answer depends on when a person was born.
| Decade of birth | United States: girls | Babies |
|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 41% | 108 |
| 1910s | 29% | 417 |
| 1920s | 24% | 615 |
| 1930s | 20% | 500 |
| 1940s | 32% | 929 |
| 1950s | 37% | 1,225 |
| 1960s | 67% | 4,848 |
| 1970s | 84% | 28,553 |
| 1980s | 92% | 92,060 |
| 1990s | 97% | 116,800 |
| 2000s | 95% | 28,502 |
| 2010s | 81% | 5,729 |
| 2020s | 71% | 852 |
Births per decade from the US Social Security Administration (1880–2024) and INSEE (France, 1900–2025); decades with fewer than 100 babies are left out. See boys' names that became girls' names and French names that changed sex.
Look up Courtney with a country
Send a reliable two-letter country code when you have one. Preserve probability, sample size, confidence and source with the category.
curl "https://namegender.com/api/v1/gender?name=Courtney&country=US" \
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Method and limits
Counted rows come from national registration sources that publish male and female totals. The attested-country list also includes sources that confirm presence but do not publish a sample size. Those two evidence types are kept separate.
Name data describes a population-level association. It does not identify an individual person's gender. Preserve unknown and low-confidence results, and do not use name inference for employment, medical, financial, insurance, legal or eligibility decisions.
Data version: 2026.10. Read the benchmark methodology and database provenance before applying a threshold.
Questions about Courtney
Is Courtney a male or female name?
Courtney is predominantly associated with female records in the available name data. Without a country hint, NameGender returns female at 93%, based on 319,582 observations.
Why can the result for Courtney change by country?
A name can have different observed distributions in different populations. A country hint narrows the evidence used by the API instead of treating one global result as universal.
Does the name Courtney identify a person's gender?
No. This page describes statistical associations in name records. It cannot identify an individual person and should not be used for consequential decisions.