Kurtis
given name · Latin script
Meaning: unexplained
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈkɝtɪs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kurtis is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- CACanada≈1 in 19K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 23K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 24K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 411 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 19K (inferred from the name graph)
≈31,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Canada, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
unexplained.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Kurtis, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kurtis counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈31,000 est. | ≈1 in 45K | — | Kurtis | 7 |
| US United States | 14,318 | 1 in 23K | 14K | Kurtis | 411 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 32K | 4 | Kurtis | 161 |
| CA Canada | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 19K | 2 | Kurtis | 193 |
| AU Australia | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 24K | 3 | Kurtis | 112 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 24K | 16 | Kurtis | 39 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Kurtis is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latvian, Laukirbe ("Perdix perdix", senāk "Perdix cinereal")
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Kurtis Blowb. 1959USAmerican rapper
- Kurtis Robertsb. 1978USAmerican motorcycle racer
- Kurtis McLeanb. 1980CACanadian ice hockey player
- Kurtis Fosterb. 1981CACanadian ice hockey defenceman
- Miss Fameb. 1985USnot in their usual nameAmerican drag queen
- Kurtis Gaskellb. 1990CACanadian pair skater
- Kurtis Pattersonb. 1993AUAustralian cricketer
- Kurtis Connerb. 1994CACanadian YouTuber and stand-up comedian (born 1994)
- Kurtis Marschallb. 1997AUAustralian athletics competitor
- Kurtis Schreiberfigure skater
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 38 sources across 25 countries.
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kurtis mean, and where does it come from?
- unexplained. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- What are other forms of the name Kurtis?
- In the etymology graph, Curtis is a form of the same name in other languages; Curt is a recorded short or pet form.
- How do you pronounce Kurtis?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkɝtɪs/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Kurtis a male or female name?
- Kurtis is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Kurtis have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 31 thousand people named Kurtis in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kurtis.
- How common is the name Kurtis?
- In the United States, the national register counted 14,318 people named Kurtis in 2020, about 1 in 23 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Kurtis?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kurtisThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Kurtis”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.