Kurtiss
Kurtiss was last recorded in 1991, when 8 babies were given it; 245 Americans have been recorded with it between 1952 and 1991 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kurtiss by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kurtiss?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #6,257, in 1991; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
12 babies in 1968, the peak
Kurtiss peaked in 1968, when 12 boys were given it, #2,513 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 8 | #6,257 | 4.0 |
| 1990 | 5 | #8,886 | 2.4 |
| 1988 | 5 | #7,965 | 2.6 |
| 1987 | 5 | #7,616 | 2.7 |
| 1984 | 9 | #4,396 | 5.0 |
| 1982 | 7 | #5,343 | 3.9 |
| 1981 | 5 | #6,829 | 2.8 |
| 1980 | 7 | #5,255 | 3.9 |
| 1979 | 7 | #5,131 | 4.1 |
| 1978 | 7 | #4,814 | 4.3 |
Every recorded year (32)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1977 | 8 | #4,409 | 4.9 |
| 1976 | 6 | #5,307 | 3.8 |
| 1975 | 8 | #4,140 | 5.1 |
| 1974 | 6 | #4,969 | 3.8 |
| 1972 | 9 | #3,496 | 5.6 |
| 1971 | 11 | #3,072 | 6.2 |
| 1970 | 8 | #3,688 | 4.3 |
| 1969 | 12 | #2,625 | 6.7 |
| 1968 | 12 | #2,513 | 6.9 |
| 1966 | 7 | #3,398 | 3.9 |
| 1965 | 10 | #2,701 | 5.4 |
| 1964 | 9 | #2,969 | 4.5 |
| 1963 | 8 | #3,198 | 3.9 |
| 1962 | 7 | #3,485 | 3.4 |
| 1961 | 8 | #3,245 | 3.8 |
| 1960 | 8 | #3,221 | 3.8 |
| 1959 | 9 | #2,948 | 4.2 |
| 1958 | 6 | #3,741 | 2.8 |
| 1957 | 5 | #4,286 | 2.3 |
| 1956 | 7 | #3,378 | 3.3 |
| 1955 | 11 | #2,498 | 5.3 |
| 1952 | 5 | #4,023 | 2.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kurtiss a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kurtiss has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 32 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kurtiss: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kurtiss, and how old are they?
An estimated 206 Americans named Kurtiss and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (84% of everyone recorded); the median is 55 years old and half are between 47 and 63. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 233 people named Kurtiss (2 women and girls, 231 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 217 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% above that prediction.
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).
How common is the spelling Kurtiss?
Kurtiss is a less common spelling of Curtis: SSA has recorded 245 Kurtiss and 262,876 Curtis since 1880.
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 286,420 babies since 1880, Kurtiss is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 279 babies recorded by SSA was a Kurtiss (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Kurtiss
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 Kurtiss and names like it
- Compare Kurtiss and CurtisBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sKurtiss peaked in 1968.
- The top names of 1968The year the most babies were named Kurtiss.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Kurtiss alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with KMost given first.