Meaning not yet researched.
Kurt: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 62 in 2025. Its best rank was #109 in 1964.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #109 in 1964; #2,271 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kurt in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,271 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1964, at #109.
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Kurt: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 62 boys in 2025. Peak: #109 in 1964 · most boys in one year: 3,158 (1964).
In 2025, 62 US boys were named Kurt, making it the 2,271st most common boys’ name of the year, down 161 places from #2,110 in 2024. That is 9 fewer than the 71 boys named Kurt in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #109, reached in 1964. That year also had the most boys given the name: 3,158. For comparison, it was #1,424 in 2015 and #233 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kurt in 122 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1894 with 7 babies. In all, 86,054 US babies have been given the name, 0.2% of them girls and 99.7% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 28,301 babies named Kurt.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 839 US boys were named Kurt; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 122. In 2025 that was about 1 in 27,550 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kurt ranked highest in Ohio in 2025, at #1,388 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Curt (16,680 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Cort, Kort and Court are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Cort (1,918), Kort (536), Court (334), Quirt (6), Kurth (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Kurt in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 48 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ohio | 5 | #1,388 | — |
| New York | 5 | #1,920 | #1,420 |
| Texas | 6 | #2,451 | #2,036 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 62 | #2,271 |
| 2024 | — | — | 71 | #2,110 |
| 2023 | — | — | 57 | #2,405 |
| 2022 | — | — | 81 | #1,929 |
| 2021 | — | — | 72 | #2,051 |
| 2020 | — | — | 94 | #1,683 |
| 2019 | — | — | 97 | #1,667 |
| 2018 | — | — | 90 | #1,731 |
| 2017 | — | — | 93 | #1,701 |
| 2016 | — | — | 122 | #1,427 |
| 2015 | — | — | 121 | #1,424 |
| 2014 | — | — | 113 | #1,451 |
| 2013 | — | — | 131 | #1,320 |
| 2012 | — | — | 108 | #1,493 |
| 2011 | — | — | 111 | #1,473 |
| 2010 | — | — | 112 | #1,468 |
| 2009 | — | — | 134 | #1,305 |
| 2008 | — | — | 139 | #1,257 |
| 2007 | — | — | 157 | #1,141 |
| 2006 | — | — | 182 | #1,013 |
| 2005 | — | — | 182 | #962 |
| 2004 | — | — | 230 | #785 |
| 2003 | — | — | 244 | #738 |
| 2002 | — | — | 278 | #670 |
| 2001 | — | — | 273 | #666 |
| 2000 | — | — | 315 | #610 |
| 1999 | — | — | 334 | #584 |
| 1998 | — | — | 368 | #544 |
| 1997 | — | — | 439 | #487 |
| 1996 | — | — | 482 | #457 |
| 1995 | — | — | 537 | #424 |
| 1994 | — | — | 554 | #413 |
| 1993 | — | — | 587 | #394 |
| 1992 | — | — | 691 | #347 |
| 1991 | — | — | 744 | #333 |
| 1990 | — | — | 957 | #275 |
| 1989 | 5 | #13,485 | 973 | #260 |
| 1988 | — | — | 1,043 | #233 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,548 | 1,023 | #229 |
| 1986 | 7 | #9,046 | 1,059 | #224 |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,804 | 1,015 | #228 |
| 1984 | — | — | 978 | #229 |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,128 | 971 | #231 |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,702 | 1,180 | #209 |
| 1981 | 9 | #7,082 | 1,160 | #214 |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,243 | 1,280 | #192 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,494 | 1,250 | #194 |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,560 | 1,065 | #208 |
| 1977 | — | — | 1,119 | #202 |
| 1976 | — | — | 1,018 | #209 |
| 1975 | — | — | 1,085 | #202 |
| 1974 | — | — | 1,233 | #182 |
| 1973 | 8 | #6,370 | 1,235 | #186 |
| 1972 | 10 | #5,278 | 1,582 | #164 |
| 1971 | 9 | #5,767 | 1,873 | #155 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,513 | 2,197 | #149 |
| 1969 | 14 | #3,871 | 2,281 | #132 |
| 1968 | 13 | #3,890 | 2,454 | #123 |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,744 | 2,742 | #113 |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,532 | 2,846 | #110 |
| 1965 | 12 | #3,839 | 2,875 | #112 |
| 1964 | 10 | #4,500 | 3,158 | #109 |
| 1963 | 9 | #4,708 | 3,132 | #116 |
| 1962 | 6 | #6,210 | 3,019 | #121 |
| 1961 | — | — | 2,827 | #129 |
| 1960 | 8 | #4,967 | 2,881 | #130 |
| 1959 | 6 | #5,906 | 2,816 | #129 |
| 1958 | 8 | #4,710 | 2,672 | #134 |
| 1957 | — | — | 2,428 | #141 |
| 1956 | — | — | 2,387 | #138 |
| 1955 | — | — | 1,933 | #150 |
| 1954 | — | — | 1,692 | #168 |
| 1953 | — | — | 1,515 | #177 |
| 1952 | — | — | 1,466 | #178 |
| 1951 | — | — | 944 | #210 |
| 1950 | — | — | 789 | #233 |
| 1949 | — | — | 671 | #250 |
| 1948 | — | — | 519 | #303 |
| 1947 | — | — | 535 | #297 |
| 1946 | — | — | 373 | #334 |
| 1945 | — | — | 264 | #368 |
| 1944 | — | — | 294 | #348 |
| 1943 | — | — | 296 | #356 |
| 1942 | — | — | 258 | #377 |
| 1941 | — | — | 193 | #422 |
| 1940 | — | — | 194 | #417 |
| 1939 | — | — | 143 | #478 |
| 1938 | — | — | 134 | #503 |
| 1937 | — | — | 135 | #495 |
| 1936 | — | — | 106 | #560 |
| 1935 | — | — | 92 | #610 |
| 1934 | — | — | 69 | #737 |
| 1933 | — | — | 64 | #766 |
| 1932 | — | — | 64 | #799 |
| 1931 | — | — | 56 | #849 |
| 1930 | — | — | 77 | #716 |
| 1929 | — | — | 67 | #790 |
| 1928 | — | — | 62 | #839 |
| 1927 | — | — | 45 | #1,049 |
| 1926 | — | — | 53 | #939 |
| 1925 | — | — | 45 | #1,034 |
| 1924 | — | — | 41 | #1,128 |
| 1923 | — | — | 47 | #1,039 |
| 1922 | — | — | 32 | #1,297 |
| 1921 | — | — | 33 | #1,286 |
| 1920 | — | — | 37 | #1,196 |
| 1919 | — | — | 28 | #1,369 |
| 1918 | — | — | 31 | #1,275 |
| 1917 | — | — | 40 | #1,054 |
| 1916 | — | — | 28 | #1,289 |
| 1915 | — | — | 45 | #935 |
| 1914 | — | — | 29 | #1,064 |
| 1913 | — | — | 26 | #981 |
| 1912 | — | — | 18 | #1,123 |
| 1911 | — | — | 12 | #1,016 |
| 1910 | — | — | 6 | #1,511 |
| 1908 | — | — | 6 | #1,304 |
| 1906 | — | — | 5 | #1,343 |
| 1905 | — | — | 6 | #1,170 |
| 1899 | — | — | 5 | #1,139 |
| 1896 | — | — | 9 | #801 |
| 1894 | — | — | 7 | #913 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).