Curt

Where Curt comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Curt.

  • Germanic
Curt through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #809 among boys, with 6 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1958
    Curt Hennig born
    American professional wrestler
  3. 1960
    Peak, #292
    720 babies named Curt, the most in any year.
  4. 1964
    Curt O. Schaller born
    German cinematographer, Steadicam operator, photographer, inventor and designer
  5. 1973
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #430.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from the Germanic languages, an anglicized spelling of Kurt
Namesakes
  • Curt O. Schaller · German cinematographer, Steadicam operator, photographer, inventor and designer, born 1964
  • Curt Hennig · American professional wrestler, 1958–2003
  • Curt Sachs · German musicologist, 1881–1959
  • Curt Goetz · German actor and writer, 1888–1960
  • Curt Haase · German general, 1881–1943

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.