Kurt

Where Kurt comes from

From German Kurt.
— Wiktionary's entry for Kurt
  • 1 syllable
Along the way
  1. 1894
    First appearance
    #857 among boys, 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 — more than any year before or since.
  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.