How Many People Are Named Curt?
people named Curt are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 26,531 people in the US has this name
Based on 16,680 babies named Curt in Social Security records from 1880 to 2024, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎 Rare
Peak Year
720 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Either a variant of KURT or short form of CURTIS.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Curt in English. Counting Curt and these spellings together, about 82,325 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Curt in the records were boys.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Curt alive today is about 56 years old, and 49% are between 30 and 59. Half of them were between 49 and 65 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Curt first appears in the records in 1880 and was given most often in 1960, to 720 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2024.
Babies given the name each year, 1880 to 2024
🏆 Rank History
Curt has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #292, in 1960.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | Not ranked |
| Best rank | #292 (1960) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #319 in the 1960s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Curt alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Curt were born in California than in any other state: about 1,123 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Curt was given 3 times as often in Wisconsin, 2.9 times in Iowa and 2.2 times in Minnesota.
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