Curtis
Curtis is ranked 927th among boys in 2024 (249 births). Its best rank was 72nd, in 1963.
- Rank in 2024
- #927down 25 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 2490.01% of boys
- Peak year
- 19625,570 births
- Best rank
- #72in 1963
- Since 1880
- 262,636people given the name
The story in the numbers
260,314 boys have been named Curtis in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1962, with 5,570 births — 0.27% of all boys recorded that year.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago (rank 530 → 927).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1962, and the 1960s alone account for 18%. It has spent 145 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 46 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 2,322 girls have also been given it, 0.88% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Curtis | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 695 | |
| 1890s | 928 | |
| 1900s | 1,683 | |
| 1910s | 8,911 | |
| 1920s | 16,138 | |
| 1930s | 18,008 | |
| 1940s | 26,008 | |
| 1950s | 46,321 | |
| 1960s | 47,243 | |
| 1970s | 28,812 | |
| 1980s | 29,906 | |
| 1990s | 19,206 | |
| 2000s | 9,649 | |
| 2010s | 5,321 | |
| 2020s | 1,485 |
In 1962, its biggest year
Curtis was the 73rd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1962 were Michael, David, John, James and Robert. See all of 1962.
Names that rose and fell with Curtis
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Karlpeak 1960
- Stuartpeak 1960
- Nealpeak 1959
- Joesphpeak 1957
- Kirbypeak 1957
- Neilpeak 1954
- Paulpeak 1957
- Jaypeak 1960
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.