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Koraima vs Kortney

American parents have registered 5,749 Kortneys since 1880, against 236 Koraimas. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Koraima against Kortney, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Koraima Kortney

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Kortney has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1966 to 2023. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2023, when Koraima had 5 and Kortney had 5.

Side by side

  Koraima Kortney
Total US births 2365,749
Most in one year 39335
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 2305,600
Median age today 2832
Peak year 19931990
Best rank 2,990th girls677th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19931966
Girls / boys 236 / 05,313 / 436

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Kortneys alive today are over 32; half the Koraimas are over 28. That is 4 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Koraima and Kortney.