Kurtiss
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Kurtiss has been given to 245 babies in the U.S. since 1952. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1968, with 12 recorded.
Babies named Kurtiss, 1991
1 in 487,000
Kurtiss over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Kurtiss?
Kurtiss had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1991, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1991
- 1 in 487,000
- 8 of 3,892,928 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 252,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1991
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 337,298 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Kurtiss sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1991 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 337,298 children born in 1991 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kurtiss. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Kurtisss were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Kurtiss was born before 1969 — so the typical Kurtiss is around 56 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1960s
- 33.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 59.2%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 245
- People you could plausibly meet
1960s — 33.1% of all recorded uses (81).
Is Kurtiss rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1968 (12)
- Years since peak
- 57
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 23.5% average annual change
Spellings of Kurtiss
Kurtiss is not the most common spelling — Curtis is, with 91.6% against Kurtiss's 0.09%.
Kurtiss around the world
Where Kurtiss ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales1997–1997#2,859in 1997
- France1997–2015#4,772in 2015
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Kurtiss by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Kurtiss
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Kurtiss
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.