Kurtis
Kurtis was given to 47 boys in 2025, #2,738 among boys’ names; 18,163 Americans have been recorded with it since 1934 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 16,500 Americans named Kurtis and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (91% of everyone recorded); the median is 39 years old and half are between 31 and 51.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kurtis by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Kurtis mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Kurtis is “a male given name, variant of Curtis.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Kurtis?
#2,738 among boys’ names, 2025
Kurtis fell from #1,863 in 2015 to #2,738 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 41.2 to 27.5 per million.
624 babies in 1989, the peak
Kurtis peaked in 1989, when 624 boys were given it, #364 among boys’ names. The 47 births of 2025 are 8% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 47 | #2,738 | 0.03 |
| 2024 | 29 | #3,854 | 0.02 |
| 2023 | 41 | #3,035 | 0.02 |
| 2022 | 47 | #2,776 | 0.03 |
| 2021 | 51 | #2,570 | 0.03 |
| 2020 | 47 | #2,678 | 0.03 |
| 2019 | 49 | #2,644 | 0.03 |
| 2018 | 67 | #2,110 | 0.04 |
| 2017 | 86 | #1,788 | 0.05 |
| 2016 | 88 | #1,759 | 0.05 |
Every recorded year (89)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 79 | #1,863 | 0.04 |
| 2014 | 101 | #1,569 | 0.05 |
| 2013 | 91 | #1,666 | 0.05 |
| 2012 | 101 | #1,568 | 0.05 |
| 2011 | 88 | #1,698 | 0.05 |
| 2010 | 108 | #1,510 | 0.06 |
| 2009 | 125 | #1,373 | 0.06 |
| 2008 | 110 | #1,487 | 0.05 |
| 2007 | 137 | #1,281 | 0.07 |
| 2006 | 145 | #1,166 | 0.07 |
| 2005 | 156 | #1,065 | 0.08 |
| 2004 | 157 | #1,041 | 0.08 |
| 2003 | 170 | #961 | 0.09 |
| 2002 | 199 | #837 | 0.10 |
| 2001 | 231 | #750 | 0.12 |
| 2000 | 242 | #718 | 0.12 |
| 1999 | 244 | #688 | 0.13 |
| 1998 | 305 | #606 | 0.16 |
| 1997 | 321 | #578 | 0.17 |
| 1996 | 356 | #539 | 0.19 |
| 1995 | 435 | #493 | 0.23 |
| 1994 | 442 | #484 | 0.23 |
| 1993 | 444 | #474 | 0.23 |
| 1992 | 472 | #460 | 0.24 |
| 1991 | 547 | #414 | 0.27 |
| 1990 | 566 | #409 | 0.28 |
| 1989 | 624 | #364 | 0.31 |
| 1988 | 589 | #353 | 0.31 |
| 1987 | 613 | #334 | 0.33 |
| 1986 | 549 | #347 | 0.30 |
| 1985 | 501 | #369 | 0.27 |
| 1984 | 451 | #384 | 0.25 |
| 1983 | 393 | #410 | 0.22 |
| 1982 | 361 | #448 | 0.20 |
| 1981 | 391 | #422 | 0.22 |
| 1980 | 389 | #416 | 0.22 |
| 1979 | 343 | #432 | 0.20 |
| 1978 | 271 | #490 | 0.17 |
| 1977 | 251 | #528 | 0.15 |
| 1976 | 197 | #583 | 0.13 |
| 1975 | 184 | #595 | 0.12 |
| 1974 | 213 | #552 | 0.14 |
| 1973 | 197 | #569 | 0.13 |
| 1972 | 207 | #555 | 0.13 |
| 1971 | 282 | #480 | 0.16 |
| 1970 | 265 | #497 | 0.14 |
| 1969 | 287 | #453 | 0.16 |
| 1968 | 245 | #487 | 0.14 |
| 1967 | 234 | #489 | 0.13 |
| 1966 | 246 | #487 | 0.14 |
| 1965 | 269 | #475 | 0.14 |
| 1964 | 298 | #461 | 0.15 |
| 1963 | 279 | #477 | 0.14 |
| 1962 | 228 | #530 | 0.11 |
| 1961 | 234 | #519 | 0.11 |
| 1960 | 202 | #556 | 0.09 |
| 1959 | 192 | #563 | 0.09 |
| 1958 | 169 | #595 | 0.08 |
| 1957 | 172 | #584 | 0.08 |
| 1956 | 159 | #603 | 0.08 |
| 1955 | 111 | #697 | 0.05 |
| 1954 | 106 | #705 | 0.05 |
| 1953 | 101 | #708 | 0.05 |
| 1952 | 76 | #805 | 0.04 |
| 1951 | 68 | #849 | 0.04 |
| 1950 | 47 | #1,031 | 0.03 |
| 1949 | 43 | #1,076 | 0.02 |
| 1948 | 35 | #1,223 | 0.02 |
| 1947 | 22 | #1,627 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 18 | #1,721 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 10 | #2,324 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 9 | #2,555 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 23 | #1,478 | 0.02 |
| 1942 | 18 | #1,708 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 13 | #2,051 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 10 | #2,407 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 8 | #2,724 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 6 | #3,349 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 5 | #3,957 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kurtis a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kurtis has been given almost only to boys: 25 girls in 89 years of records.
Girls and boys named Kurtis: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kurtis, and how old are they?
16,500 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 91% of the 18,163 Americans ever recorded as Kurtis. The median Kurtis alive today is 39 years old; half are between 31 and 51.
The 2020 Census counted 14,318 people named Kurtis (22 women and girls, 14,296 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 16,676 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 33 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,840 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 3,620 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 7,360 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,790 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 817 |
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 Kurtis born?
The states with the most babies named Kurtis are California, Michigan and Ohio, with 31% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 2,065 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Michigan | 1,197 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Ohio | 1,121 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Illinois | 1,011 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 869 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Washington | 688 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| Indiana | 684 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Wisconsin | 651 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| New York | 586 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Missouri | 576 | not ranked | 1.4× |
Where Kurtis is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kurtis is most over-represented in Iowa: since 1934 it was given 2.3 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 Kurtis 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 5 names spelled alike, given to 286,420 babies since 1880, Kurtis is the second most given (6.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 47 of their 279 babies (17%), again the second 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 Kurtis
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 Kurtis and names like it
- Compare Kurtis and CurtisBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sKurtis peaked in 1989.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kurtis since 1910.
- The top names of 1989The year the most babies were named Kurtis.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Kurtis alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with KMost given first.