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Boy · German
Kurt
Say it: KOORT
Meaning
German short form of Konrad, from kuoni 'bold' and rad 'counsel'.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
Popular in Germany in the early 20th century and in the United States in the mid-century.
Its wave through time
A fashion of the 1960s
In the United States
- 85,730 babies given this name since 1894
- At its height in 1966, about 1 in 627 boys
- 91 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Curt
Famous bearers
- Kurt Weill, composer
- Kurt Gödel, logician
- Kurt Vonnegut, novelist
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Where this comes from
- National birth statistics of European countries source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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