Kurt
- Pronunciation
- [Kurt]
- Gender
- Male
- Meaning
- Honest Advisor
- Origin
- German
About the Name Kurt
Kurt is a German name, traditionally a short form of Konrad and built on Germanic elements meaning "bold" and "counsel" — hence its familiar gloss as "honest advisor." Trim and forthright, it has long carried an air of plainspoken strength, and it crossed comfortably into English-speaking use while keeping its distinctly Continental character.
The name claims a notably accomplished set of bearers. American actor Kurt Russell (born March 17, 1951, in Springfield, Massachusetts) has worked across film and television for more than six decades; Kurt Gödel was an Austrian-American logician and mathematician whose incompleteness theorems reshaped twentieth-century thinking about mathematics and the limits of formal reasoning; Kurt Vonnegut Jr. was an American novelist whose blend of science fiction, dark humor, and humanist satire made him one of the era's most distinctive voices; and Kurt Weill was a German-born American composer who fused popular song with modernist harmony and social commentary.
Kurt first entered the US Social Security top-1000 in 2000 at its best rank of #610 and remained through 2005, when it sat at #962, with roughly 1,522 boys given the name across that span. Recorded variants include Curt and Kort.
Source: U.S. Social Security Administration name data, 1880–2024 (methodology). By Marvin Tang.
Quick Facts About Kurt
US Popularity History (2000–2005)
Annual US births named Kurt by gender, from US Social Security Administration records. Peak year: 2000 with 315 boys named Kurt (boy rank #610 that year).
Where it stands today: in 2005, ranked #962 for boys (182 US births). That's 352 places below its 2000 peak.
Source: US Social Security Administration. Limitations: US birth-certificate data only; names appearing fewer than 5 times in a given year are suppressed for privacy; spelling variants are counted separately. For names that ranked outside the US top 100 before year 2000, only the years they reached the top 100 are shown — the chart may have gaps for less-popular historical names.
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Famous People Named Kurt
4 notable figures from history and culture who share the name Kurt.
- Kurt Gödel was a well-known mathematician and philosopher who hailed from Austria.
- Kurt Russell — Movie Actor (1951)
- Kurt Vonnegut was a famous American novelist and essayist.
- Kurt Weill was a renowned German composer.
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Compare Kurt to Other Popular Names
Side-by-side popularity charts and crossover years for Kurt against today's most popular boys-name peers (top 8 by US births in the last 10 years of SSA records).