Cort
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Meaning
archaic Low German form of Cord, a contracted form of Conrad, 'brave counsel'
The story
Cort is carried in Behind the Name's community database as an archaic Low German form of Cord, recorded between the fifteenth and the eighteenth centuries, and Cord is the German contracted form of Conrad, "brave counsel", from the Old German kuoni and rat. The American ledger gives the four-letter form a long, quiet line of its own: about 40 boys in the 1940s, one or two hundred a decade through midcentury, about 289 in the 1990s, about 446 in the 2000s, about 336 in the 2010s, and about 91 so far this decade. Never common, never absent for long: a name that has spent eighty years just below the noise floor. A medieval German contraction three steps back, and an American line that keeps renewing the lease.
How popular is Cort around the world?
In the United States, Cort is on the Social Security birth record for 2020 to 2025.
Cort is on the official records of the United States.
United States
on record
In the United States, Cort is on the Social Security birth record for 2020 to 2025.
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Cort has stayed rare in US records the whole time: no peak decade to name.
Births with a Social Security record. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration
South Australia
last on record 1978
Cort is not on the 2017 record for South Australia, whose registry publishes every name given that year.
The count never rose above 1 in a year, too few to chart.
Births registered in South Australia (not all of Australia) by first name and year of registration, 1944–2017, from the state’s Births, Deaths and Marriages registry, which publishes every name down to a single birth in capitals; a spelling its export repeats inside a year is counted once, and from 2018 only a top 100 is published, so the series ends at 2017. Source: Consumer and Business Services (South Australia), popular baby names
Not on the record in Spain, Mexico City, Argentina, Puerto Rico, England and Wales, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand and Scotland: those registries withhold small counts, so rare uses may sit below their floors.
Not on the Chile record: nametree keeps spellings that reached 5 registrations in some year, so rarer uses are not shown. Not on the Montevideo record for 1940 to 2011: that registry withholds nothing, so this spelling was not given there in those years. Not on the France record: nametree keeps spellings that reached 20 births in some year, so rarer uses are not shown.
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The Cort deep dive
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