Kurtis
About 18,163 American babies have been named Kurtis since 1934, most of them around 1989. In 2025 it ranked 2,718th. About 17,000 Kurtises are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 38.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Kurtis boys named Kurtis
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 18,163
- Estimated living today
- 17,000
- Median age today
- 38
- Peak year
- 1989
- Best rank
- 362nd
- Rank in 2025
- 2,718th
- First recorded
- 1934
- Girls / boys
- 25 / 18,138
How old the living Kurtises are
born that year still alive today
Of the 18,163 babies given the name since 1934, about 17,000 are alive — 91 in every hundred. Roughly 1,300 of them are children and 1,100 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1987 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.
Notable Kurtiss
- Kurtis Marschall (born 1997)Australian athletics competitor
- Kurtis Blow (born 1959)American rapper
People named Kurtis with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Kurtis is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Kurtis is most concentrated in Washington (2.9×), Iowa (2.8×), Utah (2.4×), Kansas (2.4×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1989
The most popular boys’ names the year Kurtis peaked:
Kurtis elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Kurtis | 1,699 | 159th |
| France boys | Kurtis | 765 | 943rd |
| Northern Ireland boys | Kurtis | 112 | 116th |
| Scotland boys | Kurtis | 84 | 214th |
| Ireland boys | Kurtis | 15 | 337th |
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.
Related names
Kurtis against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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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.