Curtiss

5,231 people in the United States were counted with the surname Curtiss in the 2020 census, making it the 6,261st most common in the country. That is about one person in 57,100.

By the numbers

People: 5,231
Rank: 6,261st
How common: 1 in 57,100
Per 100,000: 1.8

Where the name comes from

Variant of Curtis.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Curtiss described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 87.6%
Black, not Hispanic 3.9%
Hispanic or Latino 3.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Curtiss

Glenn Curtiss (1878–1930)American aviator and industrialist

People named Curtiss with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Curtiss

Also a first name

Curtiss has been given to 5,074 American babies as a first name since 1896, peaking in 1959. 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.