Boy
Curt
As a boy's name, Curt is understood to mean "courteous". It had its heyday in the 1960s and has mostly fallen out of use since. Today, it is on the rarer side without being unusual in the registry. It has quietly persisted through most of the last century of American birth records.
EtymologyShort for Curtis
EtymologyMeaning "courteous"
Births by decade
1900s
25
1910s
168
1920s
219
1930s
313
1940s
838
1950s
3,509
1960s
5,985
1970s
2,960
1980s
1,578
1990s
578
2000s
262
2010s
95
Peaked in the 1960s · 16,530 total U.S. births since 1900