Curtis

girls:

2.3k births since 1894

#3586 (37th percentile)

boys:

260.1k births since 1880

#140 (97th percentile)

overall:

262.4k births since 1880

#300 (96th percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Curtis".

1880 2023 18802023

Key Statistics

Total Births
2,322
Peak Births
52
Peak Year
1957
First Recorded
1894
Peak Percentile
6.1%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#319
Current Rank
Female statistics
Total Births
260,052
Peak Births
5,569
Peak Year
1962
First Recorded
1880
Peak Percentile
89.0%
Current Percentile
27.3%
Peak Rank
#72
Current Rank
#663
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Curtis

Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Curtis. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 60.4% confident that Curtis is pronounced as KER-tihs. The next most likely pronunciation is KER-tuhs, at 25.0% confidence.

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KER-tihs (2 syllables)
Verified
60.4% confidence
K ER1 T IH0 S
KER-tuhs (2 syllables)
Verified
25.0% confidence
K ER1 T AH0 S
KER-tees (2 syllables)
14.6% confidence
K ER1 T IY0 S

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Curtis. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Curtis, please vote using the thumbs up button.

ker-tihs (2 syllables)
2 names 5.1k births
K ER0 T IH0 S

Names with this pronunciation:

KER-tehz (2 syllables)
1 name 76 births
K ER1 T EH0 Z

Names with this pronunciation:

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like K ER1 T IH0 S) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.