Kurt is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.
Kurt is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth boy, and therefore ranks at 1461 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,460 boys names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. In the entire USA, approximately 81,539 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Kurt. That is 0.02 % of all living Americans.
The name Kurt may not be in the top rankings of the most popular boys’ names, but it is one of the few male given names, along with only 385 others, that can be found in every single state in the U.S. from Alaska to Florida and from California to New York. Of course, the name occurs more frequently in some states than in others – and Kurt is apparently especially popular in Wisconsin. Although the name is not one of the top 100 most popular men’s names here either, one in 611 men in Wisconsin is called Kurt. In total, that’s 5,397 people who feel addressed when the name Kurt is shouted loudly across Wisconsin and who ensure that their name makes it to #132 in our SmartGenius ranking of the most common male names in this nice state. If you asked all people in the entire U.S. for their first name, you would hear Kurt as the answer a total of 81,539 times. This places Kurt at #320 in our SmartGenius statistics for the most popular male names in the whole of the USA. This is true for all currently living people across all states and age groups – the recent popularity of the name Kurt as a baby name is, of course, a bit different, as you can see from the statistics above.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter K is a real popular first letter for boys’ names. That’s because 7.9% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letters J, A and D are more common for boys' names.
With four letters, the name Kurt is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 7.9% of all boys' names start with a K, this initial letter occurs more than twice as often as all 26 letters on average. Interesting detail: of all the boys’ names that begin with a K, Kenneth is the most common.
If your name is Kurt and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Kurt, you can simply say:
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Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Kurt
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Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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U
R
T
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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U
R
T
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Kurt sounds like this:
