girls:
25 births since 1969
#5691 (0th percentile)
boys:
18.1k births since 1934
#854 (81st percentile)
overall:
18.1k births since 1934
#1917 (75th percentile)
The name Kurtis is the #1,917 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 18,082 recorded births since 1934. This represents the 75.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 75.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #854 (81.4% percentile) for all time with 18,057 births since 1934. For girls, it ranks #5,691 (0.4% percentile) for all time with 25 births since 1969.
Kurtis first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1934 (1934 for boys and 1969 for girls). Birth data for Kurtis is available in 87 out of the 90 years between 1934 and 2023 (87 years for boys and 4 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 Kurtis has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.9% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Kurtis reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 55.2% percentile (ranked #340) with 298 births per million. The name was most common in 1987, with 314 births per million (ranked 54.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 1990, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Kurtis ranks #876 for boys (3.8% percentile) with 22 births per million, which is 7.0% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Kurtis reached its peak popularity in 1983, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #773) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1979, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1986.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kurtis".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Kurtis. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 81.0% confident that Kurtis is pronounced as KER-tihs, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is KER-tees, at 11.9% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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