Curtis
Curtis is the 322nd most common surname in the United States, shared by 97,208 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 3,075.
By the numbers
- People
- 97,208
- Rank
- 322nd
- How common
- 1 in 3,075
- Per 100,000
- 32.5
Where the name comes from
Origin a nickname
From Old French corteis and curteis (Modern French courtois.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Who bears the name
How people with the surname Curtis described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called Curtis
- Tony Curtis (1925–2010)American actor
- Jamie Lee Curtis (born 1958)American actress and author
- Charles Curtis (1860–1936)vice president of the United States from 1929 to 1933
- Ian Curtis (1956–1980)British musician
- Richard Curtis (born 1956)British screenwriter
- Cliff Curtis (born 1968)New Zealand actor
- Heber Doust Curtis (1872–1942)American astronomer
- Thomas Curtis (1873–1944)American athlete
People named Curtis with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Surnames like Curtis
Also a first name
Curtis has been given to 262,876 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1962. See it as a given name.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.