Cúrt
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Cúrt is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country. In Switzerland it is the 23rd most common given name. Recorded meaning: From the Latin curtus (“shortened”). Cognate with Dutch kort, German kurz, Galician curto, French court, Italian corto, Portuguese curto, and Spanish corto. Doublet of short.
- NLNetherlands1 in 288K(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 460as Kurt
- DKDenmark1 in 538as Kurt
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Cúrt itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- #895 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 524 (measured from records)
- 1 in 288K (inferred from the name graph)
≈180,000 named Kurt, est.
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Kurt in US United States, DE Germany, GB United Kingdom and 5 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)From the Latin curtus (“shortened”). Cognate with Dutch kort, German kurz, Galician curto, French court, Italian corto, Portuguese curto, and Spanish corto. Doublet of short.
Cited for this meaning 6
- A concise dictionary of first names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Cúrt 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | #108 | ≈180,000 est. | ≈1 in 461 | — | Kurt | 227 |
| US United States | #403 | 74,867as Kurt | 1 in 4.4K | 75K | Kurt | 524 |
| SE Sweden | #290 | 18,961as Kurt | 1 in 538 | 19K | Kurt | 84 |
| AT Austria | #96 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 568 | 485 | Kurt | 137 |
| GB United Kingdom | #513 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.7K | 55 | Kurt | 198 |
| CH Switzerland | #23 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 688 | 1.2K | Kurt | 133 |
| DK Denmark | #68 | 10,910as Kurt | 1 in 538 | 11K | Kurt | 133 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 60 | 1 in 288K | 316 | Kurt | 57 |
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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017). 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Cúrt mean, and where does it come from?
- From the Latin curtus (“shortened”). Cognate with Dutch kort, German kurz, Galician curto, French court, Italian corto, Portuguese curto, and Spanish corto. Doublet of short. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 4 other sources.
- Is Cúrt a male or female name?
- Cúrt 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 Cúrt have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 181 thousand people named Kurt in Germany, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Cúrt most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Cúrt is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 288 thousand people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Cúrt?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 60 people named Cúrt, about 1 in 288 thousand residents.
- How common is Cúrt compared with other names?
- In Germany, Cúrt is the 108th most common given name of 156,202 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/c%C3%BArtThe 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, “Cúrt” — the 108th most common given name in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.