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)
The name Curtis is the #300 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 262,374 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 96.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 96.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #140 (97.0% percentile) for all time with 260,052 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #3,586 (37.2% percentile) for all time with 2,322 births since 1894.
Curtis has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1894 for girls).
The name Curtis has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.1% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Curtis reached its peak popularity in 1962, achieving the 89.0% percentile (ranked #73) with 2,650 births per million. The name was most common in 1962, with 2,650 births per million (ranked 89.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 1982, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Curtis ranks #663 for boys (27.3% percentile) with 139 births per million, which is 5.3% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Curtis reached its peak popularity in 1957, achieving the 6.1% percentile (ranked #721) with 25 births per million. The name was most common in 1902, with 39 births per million (ranked 1.7% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2000.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Curtis".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Curtis. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 60.4% confident that Curtis is pronounced as KER-tihs, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is KER-tuhs, at 25.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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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.
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