Kurt
Kurt was given to 62 boys in 2025, #2,271 among boys’ names; 86,054 Americans have been recorded with it since 1894 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 68,700 Americans named Kurt and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (80% of everyone recorded); the median is 58 years old and half are between 45 and 65.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kurt by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Kurt mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Kurt is “a male given name from the Germanic languages borrowed from German, a contracted form of Konrad.”
From German Kurt.
/kɝt/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Kurt?
#2,271 among boys’ names, 2025
Kurt fell from #1,424 in 2015 to #2,271 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 63.1 to 36.3 per million.
3,168 babies in 1964, the peak
Kurt peaked in 1964, when 3,168 babies were given it (3,158 boys, #109 among boys’ names). The 62 births of 2025 are 2% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 62 | #2,271 | 0.04 |
| 2024 | 71 | #2,110 | 0.04 |
| 2023 | 57 | #2,404 | 0.03 |
| 2022 | 81 | #1,928 | 0.05 |
| 2021 | 72 | #2,050 | 0.04 |
| 2020 | 94 | #1,683 | 0.05 |
| 2019 | 97 | #1,667 | 0.05 |
| 2018 | 90 | #1,731 | 0.05 |
| 2017 | 93 | #1,701 | 0.05 |
| 2016 | 122 | #1,427 | 0.06 |
Every recorded year (122)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 121 | #1,424 | 0.06 |
| 2014 | 113 | #1,451 | 0.06 |
| 2013 | 131 | #1,320 | 0.07 |
| 2012 | 108 | #1,493 | 0.06 |
| 2011 | 111 | #1,473 | 0.06 |
| 2010 | 112 | #1,468 | 0.06 |
| 2009 | 134 | #1,305 | 0.07 |
| 2008 | 139 | #1,257 | 0.07 |
| 2007 | 157 | #1,141 | 0.08 |
| 2006 | 182 | #1,013 | 0.09 |
| 2005 | 182 | #961 | 0.09 |
| 2004 | 230 | #785 | 0.12 |
| 2003 | 244 | #737 | 0.12 |
| 2002 | 278 | #670 | 0.14 |
| 2001 | 273 | #666 | 0.14 |
| 2000 | 315 | #610 | 0.16 |
| 1999 | 334 | #583 | 0.17 |
| 1998 | 368 | #544 | 0.19 |
| 1997 | 439 | #487 | 0.23 |
| 1996 | 482 | #457 | 0.25 |
| 1995 | 537 | #424 | 0.28 |
| 1994 | 554 | #413 | 0.29 |
| 1993 | 587 | #394 | 0.30 |
| 1992 | 691 | #347 | 0.35 |
| 1991 | 744 | #333 | 0.37 |
| 1990 | 957 | #275 | 0.47 |
| 1989 | 973 | #260 | 0.49 |
| 1988 | 1,043 | #233 | 0.54 |
| 1987 | 1,023 | #229 | 0.55 |
| 1986 | 1,059 | #224 | 0.58 |
| 1985 | 1,015 | #228 | 0.55 |
| 1984 | 978 | #229 | 0.54 |
| 1983 | 971 | #231 | 0.54 |
| 1982 | 1,180 | #209 | 0.65 |
| 1981 | 1,160 | #214 | 0.65 |
| 1980 | 1,280 | #192 | 0.72 |
| 1979 | 1,250 | #194 | 0.73 |
| 1978 | 1,065 | #208 | 0.65 |
| 1977 | 1,119 | #202 | 0.68 |
| 1976 | 1,018 | #209 | 0.65 |
| 1975 | 1,085 | #202 | 0.69 |
| 1974 | 1,233 | #182 | 0.78 |
| 1973 | 1,235 | #186 | 0.79 |
| 1972 | 1,582 | #164 | 1.0 |
| 1971 | 1,873 | #155 | 1.1 |
| 1970 | 2,197 | #149 | 1.2 |
| 1969 | 2,281 | #132 | 1.3 |
| 1968 | 2,454 | #123 | 1.4 |
| 1967 | 2,742 | #113 | 1.6 |
| 1966 | 2,846 | #110 | 1.6 |
| 1965 | 2,875 | #112 | 1.5 |
| 1964 | 3,158 | #109 | 1.6 |
| 1963 | 3,132 | #116 | 1.5 |
| 1962 | 3,019 | #121 | 1.5 |
| 1961 | 2,827 | #129 | 1.3 |
| 1960 | 2,881 | #130 | 1.4 |
| 1959 | 2,816 | #129 | 1.3 |
| 1958 | 2,672 | #134 | 1.3 |
| 1957 | 2,428 | #141 | 1.1 |
| 1956 | 2,387 | #138 | 1.1 |
| 1955 | 1,933 | #150 | 0.94 |
| 1954 | 1,692 | #168 | 0.83 |
| 1953 | 1,515 | #177 | 0.77 |
| 1952 | 1,466 | #178 | 0.75 |
| 1951 | 944 | #210 | 0.50 |
| 1950 | 789 | #233 | 0.44 |
| 1949 | 671 | #250 | 0.38 |
| 1948 | 519 | #303 | 0.30 |
| 1947 | 535 | #297 | 0.29 |
| 1946 | 373 | #334 | 0.23 |
| 1945 | 264 | #368 | 0.20 |
| 1944 | 294 | #348 | 0.22 |
| 1943 | 296 | #356 | 0.21 |
| 1942 | 258 | #377 | 0.19 |
| 1941 | 193 | #422 | 0.16 |
| 1940 | 194 | #417 | 0.17 |
| 1939 | 143 | #478 | 0.13 |
| 1938 | 134 | #503 | 0.12 |
| 1937 | 135 | #495 | 0.13 |
| 1936 | 106 | #560 | 0.10 |
| 1935 | 92 | #610 | 0.09 |
| 1934 | 69 | #737 | 0.07 |
| 1933 | 64 | #766 | 0.06 |
| 1932 | 64 | #799 | 0.06 |
| 1931 | 56 | #849 | 0.05 |
| 1930 | 77 | #716 | 0.07 |
| 1929 | 67 | #790 | 0.06 |
| 1928 | 62 | #839 | 0.06 |
| 1927 | 45 | #1,049 | 0.04 |
| 1926 | 53 | #939 | 0.05 |
| 1925 | 45 | #1,034 | 0.04 |
| 1924 | 41 | #1,128 | 0.04 |
| 1923 | 47 | #1,039 | 0.04 |
| 1922 | 32 | #1,297 | 0.03 |
| 1921 | 33 | #1,286 | 0.03 |
| 1920 | 37 | #1,196 | 0.03 |
| 1919 | 28 | #1,369 | 0.03 |
| 1918 | 31 | #1,275 | 0.03 |
| 1917 | 40 | #1,054 | 0.04 |
| 1916 | 28 | #1,289 | 0.03 |
| 1915 | 45 | #935 | 0.05 |
| 1914 | 29 | #1,064 | 0.04 |
| 1913 | 26 | #981 | 0.05 |
| 1912 | 18 | #1,123 | 0.04 |
| 1911 | 12 | #1,015 | 0.05 |
| 1910 | 6 | #1,510 | 0.03 |
| 1908 | 6 | #1,303 | 0.04 |
| 1906 | 5 | #1,342 | 0.04 |
| 1905 | 6 | #1,169 | 0.05 |
| 1899 | 5 | #1,138 | 0.05 |
| 1896 | 9 | #801 | 0.08 |
| 1894 | 7 | #912 | 0.06 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kurt a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kurt has been given almost only to boys: 196 girls in 122 years of records.
Girls and boys named Kurt: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kurt, and how old are they?
68,700 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 80% of the 86,054 Americans ever recorded as Kurt. The median Kurt alive today is 58 years old; half are between 45 and 65.
The 2020 Census counted 74,867 people named Kurt (52 women and girls, 74,815 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 72,760 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 695 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 25,400 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 24,600 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 13,300 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,540 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,200 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Kurt born?
The states with the most babies named Kurt are California, Illinois and Michigan, with 26% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 8,112 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 6,946 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Michigan | 6,606 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| New York | 6,501 | #1,920 | 0.9× |
| Wisconsin | 5,397 | not ranked | 2.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 5,013 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Ohio | 4,730 | #1,388 | 1.1× |
| Minnesota | 3,107 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| New Jersey | 2,896 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Texas | 2,511 | #2,451 | 0.4× |
Where Kurt is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kurt is most over-represented in Wisconsin: since 1910 it was given 2.8 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Kurt with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 102,734 babies since 1880, Kurt is the most given (84% of them). In 2025 it was given to 62 of their 62 babies (100%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Kurt
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Kurt and names like it
- Compare Kurt and CurtBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sKurt peaked in 1964.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kurt since 1910.
- German namesWiktionary’s origin for Kurt: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1964The year the most babies were named Kurt.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Kurt alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with KMost given first.