Meaning not yet researched.
Kurtis: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 47 in 2025. Its best rank was #334 in 1987.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #334 in 1987; #2,738 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kurtis in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,738 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1987, at #334.
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Kurtis: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 47 boys in 2025. Peak: #334 in 1987 · most boys in one year: 624 (1989).
In 2025, 47 US boys were named Kurtis, making it the 2,738th most common boys’ name of the year, up 1,118 places from #3,856 in 2024. That is 18 more than the 29 boys named Kurtis in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #334, reached in 1987. The most boys given the name in a single year was 624, in 1989. For comparison, it was #1,863 in 2015 and #1,032 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kurtis in 89 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1934 with 5 babies. In all, 18,163 US babies have been given the name, 0.1% of them girls and 99.8% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 4,874 babies named Kurtis.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 552 US boys were named Kurtis; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 88. In 2025 that was about 1 in 36,342 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Curtis (262,876 babies since 1880) and Curtiss (5,074 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Kurtis in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 47 | #2,738 |
| 2024 | — | — | 29 | #3,856 |
| 2023 | — | — | 41 | #3,037 |
| 2022 | — | — | 47 | #2,778 |
| 2021 | — | — | 51 | #2,571 |
| 2020 | — | — | 47 | #2,679 |
| 2019 | — | — | 49 | #2,645 |
| 2018 | — | — | 67 | #2,111 |
| 2017 | — | — | 86 | #1,788 |
| 2016 | — | — | 88 | #1,759 |
| 2015 | — | — | 79 | #1,863 |
| 2014 | — | — | 101 | #1,569 |
| 2013 | — | — | 91 | #1,667 |
| 2012 | — | — | 101 | #1,568 |
| 2011 | — | — | 88 | #1,698 |
| 2010 | — | — | 108 | #1,510 |
| 2009 | — | — | 125 | #1,373 |
| 2008 | — | — | 110 | #1,487 |
| 2007 | — | — | 137 | #1,281 |
| 2006 | — | — | 145 | #1,166 |
| 2005 | — | — | 156 | #1,066 |
| 2004 | — | — | 157 | #1,042 |
| 2003 | — | — | 170 | #962 |
| 2002 | — | — | 199 | #838 |
| 2001 | — | — | 231 | #751 |
| 2000 | — | — | 242 | #719 |
| 1999 | — | — | 244 | #690 |
| 1998 | — | — | 305 | #606 |
| 1997 | — | — | 321 | #578 |
| 1996 | — | — | 356 | #539 |
| 1995 | — | — | 435 | #493 |
| 1994 | — | — | 442 | #484 |
| 1993 | — | — | 444 | #474 |
| 1992 | — | — | 472 | #460 |
| 1991 | — | — | 547 | #414 |
| 1990 | — | — | 566 | #410 |
| 1989 | — | — | 624 | #364 |
| 1988 | — | — | 589 | #353 |
| 1987 | — | — | 613 | #334 |
| 1986 | 6 | #10,184 | 549 | #347 |
| 1985 | — | — | 501 | #369 |
| 1984 | — | — | 451 | #384 |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,516 | 393 | #410 |
| 1982 | — | — | 361 | #448 |
| 1981 | — | — | 391 | #422 |
| 1980 | — | — | 389 | #416 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,495 | 343 | #432 |
| 1978 | — | — | 271 | #490 |
| 1977 | — | — | 251 | #528 |
| 1976 | — | — | 197 | #583 |
| 1975 | — | — | 184 | #595 |
| 1974 | — | — | 213 | #552 |
| 1973 | — | — | 197 | #569 |
| 1972 | — | — | 207 | #555 |
| 1971 | — | — | 282 | #480 |
| 1970 | — | — | 265 | #497 |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,038 | 287 | #453 |
| 1968 | — | — | 245 | #487 |
| 1967 | — | — | 234 | #489 |
| 1966 | — | — | 246 | #487 |
| 1965 | — | — | 269 | #475 |
| 1964 | — | — | 298 | #461 |
| 1963 | — | — | 279 | #477 |
| 1962 | — | — | 228 | #530 |
| 1961 | — | — | 234 | #519 |
| 1960 | — | — | 202 | #556 |
| 1959 | — | — | 192 | #563 |
| 1958 | — | — | 169 | #596 |
| 1957 | — | — | 172 | #585 |
| 1956 | — | — | 159 | #604 |
| 1955 | — | — | 111 | #698 |
| 1954 | — | — | 106 | #706 |
| 1953 | — | — | 101 | #709 |
| 1952 | — | — | 76 | #806 |
| 1951 | — | — | 68 | #850 |
| 1950 | — | — | 47 | #1,032 |
| 1949 | — | — | 43 | #1,077 |
| 1948 | — | — | 35 | #1,224 |
| 1947 | — | — | 22 | #1,628 |
| 1946 | — | — | 18 | #1,722 |
| 1945 | — | — | 10 | #2,325 |
| 1944 | — | — | 9 | #2,556 |
| 1943 | — | — | 23 | #1,479 |
| 1942 | — | — | 18 | #1,708 |
| 1941 | — | — | 13 | #2,051 |
| 1940 | — | — | 10 | #2,407 |
| 1939 | — | — | 8 | #2,724 |
| 1937 | — | — | 6 | #3,350 |
| 1934 | — | — | 5 | #3,959 |
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).