Kurt

Where Kurt comes from

From German Kurt.
— Wiktionary's entry for Kurt
  • 1 syllable
Kurt through the years
  1. 1894
    First appearance
    #857 among boys with 7 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1922
    Kurt Vonnegut born
    American author
  3. 1964
    Peak, #109
    3,158 babies named Kurt, the most in any year.
  4. 1967
    Kurt Cobain born
    American rock musician, singer and songwriter
  5. 1973
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #186.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from the Germanic languages borrowed from German, a contracted form of Konrad.
Namesakes
  • Kurt Cobain · American rock musician, singer and songwriter, 1967–1994
  • Kurt Vonnegut · American author, 1922–2007
  • Kurt Gödel · Austrian-American logician, mathematician, and philosopher of mathematics, 1906–1978
  • Kurt Waldheim · Austrian politician and diplomat, 1918–2007
  • Kurt Georg Kiesinger · Chancellor of West Germany, 1904–1988

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.