Kurt

given name · Latin script

Meaning, in English: A male given name from the Germanic languages borrowed from German, a contracted form of Konrad

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/kɝt/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Kurt is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Switzerland it is the 23rd most common given name.

rarermore common
  • DEGermany≈1 in 444(inferred from the name graph)
  • DKDenmark1 in 538
  • SESweden1 in 538

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)

≈370,000 people, est.

#895 (measured from records)

of 15M given names

3 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
524 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 444 (inferred from the name graph)

Germany, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

KurtLatin(measured from records)
เคิร์ทThai(measured from records)
쿠르트Hangul(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

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 an ancient Magyar clan name, from kiirt ‘hom’, possibly from the symbol of the tribe.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.

How Kurt is read(measured from records)

Kurt is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • English59%

    A male given name from the Germanic languages borrowed from German, a contracted form of Konrad.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • German26%

    from an ancient Magyar clan name, from kiirt ‘hom’, possibly from the symbol of the tribe.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

    from the personal name Kurt, a reduced form of Konrad.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

    ) Curt; Curd: alter deutscher männl. Vom., verselbstständigte Kurzform von

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

    Kurt Tucholsky, deutscher Schriftsteller

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Kurt 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.

Where Kurt is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CN China—≈370,000 est.≈1 in 3.8K—Kurt21
DE Germany#108≈180,000 est.≈1 in 444—Kurt227
US United States#40374,8671 in 4.4K75KKurt524
SE Sweden#29018,9611 in 53819KKurt84
GB United Kingdom#513≈14,000 est.≈1 in 4.6K55Kurt198
AT Austria#96≈13,000 est.≈1 in 673485Kurt137
DK Denmark#6810,9101 in 53811KKurt133
CH Switzerland#23≈11,000 est.≈1 in 7951.2KKurt133

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). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Kurt is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Turkish given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, United States, Switzerland, Syria

    Languages: Turkish, Azerbaijani

    Also written Kürt, K'Urt, Kùrt, Ķurt

  • Persian given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Iran, United Kingdom, Türkiye

    Also written Kürt

  • Spanish given name8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, Brazil, Argentina

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Italian

    Also written K'Urt, Kürt, Kúrt

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Kürt

  • Polish given name17 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Poland, Czechia, Croatia

    Languages: Polish, Czech, Croatian

    Also written Курт, Kürt, Kűrt, Kųřt

  • Indonesian given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Philippines, United States, Switzerland

    Also written Kürt

79 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Kurt 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 Swedish, Kurt (från Kordt) är en lågtysk sammandragen form av → Konrad. I både den rikssvenska och finlandssvenska almanackan 12 november.

    as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

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)

1850190019502000Kurt von Schleicher, b. 1882Kurt Lewin, b. 1890Kurt Alder, b. 1902Kurt Georg Kiesinger, b. 1904Kurt Gödel, b. 1906Kurt Waldheim, b. 1918Kurt Vonnegut, b. 1922Gerhard Schröder, b. 1944Kurt Russell, b. 1951Kurt Angle, b. 1968

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)

InformalHi Kurt,

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 103 sources across 49 countries.

Official registers attesting Kurt
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020101.5K#18,078
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201.4K#18,992
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020001.2K#20,298
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)20241.2K#990
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—223#2,229

Reference works 10

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

Is Kurt a male or female name?
Kurt 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.
Where does the name Kurt come from?
from an ancient Magyar clan name, from kiirt ‘hom’, possibly from the symbol of the tribe. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
What does the name Kurt mean?
In English, A male given name from the Germanic languages borrowed from German, a contracted form of Konrad.
In which country does Kurt have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 366 thousand people named Kurt in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kurt.
How do you pronounce Kurt?
A machine transcription gives /kɝt/ (IPA) for English.
What are other forms of the name Kurt?
In the etymology graph, Curtis, Curt and Dino are forms of the same name in other languages.
How common is the name Kurt?
In the United States, the national register counted 74,867 people named Kurt in 2020, about 1 in 4.4 thousand residents.
How common is Kurt compared with other names?
In Switzerland, Kurt is the 23rd most common given name of 38,907 given names recorded there.

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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, “Kurt” — the 23rd most common given name in Switzerland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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