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Curtis

Rooted in French, Curtis is a boy's name that means "Courteous". It has not kept pace since its 1960s peak. In the current registry, it is a name most people have come across. It has quietly persisted through most of the last century of American birth records.

FrenchCourteous
FrenchPolite
Also spelled: Kurtis
Births by decade
1900s
1,765
1910s
9,114
1920s
16,446
1930s
18,261
1940s
26,276
1950s
46,633
1960s
47,558
1970s
29,059
1980s
30,152
1990s
19,245
2000s
9,646
2010s
4,478
Peaked in the 1960s · 258,633 total U.S. births since 1900