Kurt
About 86,054 American babies have been named Kurt since 1894, most of them around 1964. In 2025 it ranked 2,258th. About 69,000 Kurts are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 57.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Kurt boys named Kurt
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 86,054
- Estimated living today
- 69,000
- Median age today
- 57
- Peak year
- 1964
- Best rank
- 109th
- Rank in 2025
- 2,258th
- First recorded
- 1894
- Girls / boys
- 196 / 85,858
How old the living Kurts are
born that year still alive today
Of the 86,054 babies given the name since 1894, about 69,000 are alive — 81 in every hundred. Roughly 1,800 of them are children and 17,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1968 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Germanic languages
From German Kurt.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Kurts
- Kurt Cobain (1967–1994)American rock musician
- Kurt Vonnegut (1922–2007)American author
- Kurt Gödel (1906–1978)Austrian-American logician, mathematician, and philosopher of mathematics
- Kurt Waldheim (1918–2007)Austrian politician and diplomat
- Kurt Georg Kiesinger (1904–1988)Chancellor of West Germany
- Kurt Russell (born 1951)American actor
- Kurt Alder (1902–1958)German chemist
- Kurt von Schleicher (1882–1934)German chancellor
People named Kurt with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Kurt is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Kurt is most concentrated in Wisconsin (3.3×), Michigan (2.1×), Hawaii (2.0×), Minnesota (2.0×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1964
The most popular boys’ names the year Kurt peaked:
Kurt elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Norway boys | Kurt | 3,574 | 55th |
| England and Wales boys | Kurt | 1,237 | 236th |
| France boys | Kurt | 1,050 | 211th |
| New Zealand boys | Kurt | 515 | 68th |
| Belgium boys | Kurt | 99 | 588th |
| Scotland boys | Kurt | 92 | 246th |
| Ireland boys | Kurt | 74 | 343rd |
| Switzerland boys | Kurt | 30 | 1,217th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Kurt | 12 | 248th |
| Poland boys | Kurt | 3 birth registrations | 556th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Kurt: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Kurt | 24 | 0.002% | 928th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Kurt | 5 | 0.001% | 591st |
| Romansh boys | Switzerland | Kurt | 1 | 0.027% | 8th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
Kurt: rank by region
In 2009, Kurt was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wallonia | Kurt | 480 | 5 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Kurt by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 50 | 215th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Kurt among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Kurt | 1,098 | 1,597 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Kurt against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.