girls:
196 births since 1958
#5520 (3rd percentile)
boys:
85.7k births since 1894
#339 (93rd percentile)
overall:
85.9k births since 1894
#752 (90th percentile)
The name Kurt is the #752 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 85,928 recorded births since 1894. This represents the 90.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 90.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #339 (92.6% percentile) for all time with 85,732 births since 1894. For girls, it ranks #5,520 (3.4% percentile) for all time with 196 births since 1958.
Kurt first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1894 (1894 for boys and 1958 for girls). Birth data for Kurt is available in 120 out of the 130 years between 1894 and 2023 (120 years for boys and 25 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Kurt has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.8% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Kurt reached its peak popularity in 1964, achieving the 83.8% percentile (ranked #108) with 1,558 births per million. The name was most common in 1966, with 1,566 births per million (ranked 83.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2016, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Kurt ranks #859 for boys (5.7% percentile) with 31 births per million, which is 2.0% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Kurt reached its peak popularity in 1969, achieving the 1.2% percentile (ranked #754) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 1969, with 8 births per million (ranked 1.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1989.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kurt".
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