Kurt
Kurt is a common male given name as well as a family name . Kurt is a Germanic name and means something like "courageous advisor". Variants are Cord , Curd , Curt , Kurth .
Origin and meaning of the name
Short form of Konrad ("Der kühne Rat")
Derived from Kunibert ("Bold and radiant")
As a Turkish family name, it means wolf .
distribution
At the end of the 19th century, Kurt was already a common first name in Germany. Its popularity continued to grow, so that it was one of the ten most popular names of the respective year from the mid-1900s to the late 1920s. Then its popularity gradually declined at first, with the beginning of the 1960s rapidly from. The name has hardly been used since the early 1970s.
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Name bearer
family name
- Can Kurt (* 2001), Austrian soccer player
- Chandra Kurt (* 1968), Swiss wine author
- Erhan Kurt (* 1987), Turkish soccer player
- Fred Kurt (1939–2015), Swiss wildlife biologist, elephant expert
- Hassan Kurt (* 1970), Kurdish marathon runner
- Hedwig Kurt (1877 - unknown), German politician (SPD)
- Hildegard Kurt (* 1958), German cultural scientist
- İsmail Kurt (1934–2017), Turkish football player
- Kemal Kurt (1947–2002), Turkish writer
- Marlene Kurt (* 1943), Canadian discus thrower and shot putter
- Melanie Kurt (1880–1941), Austrian opera singer (soprano)
- Metin Kurt (1948–2012), Turkish football player and coach, and politician
- Michael Kurt (* 1980), Swiss canoeist
- Muhammad Kurd Ali (1876–1953), Syrian scholar, historian and literary critic
- Mustafa Kurt (* 1968), German-Turkish soccer player
- Okan Kurt (* 1995), German-Turkish soccer player
- Rehabilitation Kurt (* 1989), Turkish soccer player
- Sabahudin Kurt (1935-2018), Yugoslav singer
- Sinan Kurt (soccer player, 1995) , (* 1995), Turkish-German soccer player
- Sinan Kurt (* 1996), German soccer player
- Stefan Kurt (* 1959), Swiss actor
- Ümit Kurt (* 1991), Turkish soccer player
- Yaşar Kurt (* 1968), Armenian rock musician
First name
- Kurt Abbott (* 1969), American baseball player
- Kurt Alder (1902–1958), German chemist, Nobel Prize winner
- Kurt Bader (1899–1959), German lawyer
- Kurt Beck (* 1949), German politician (SPD)
- Kurt Beckmann (* 1984), German bodybuilder and erotic actor, see Marco Majewski
- Kurt Biedenkopf (* 1930), German politician (CDU)
- Kurt Bock (* 1958), German industrial manager, CEO of BASF
- Kurt Cobain (1967–1994), singer, guitarist, composer and painter
- Kurt Denzer (* 1939), German director and documentary filmmaker
- Kurt Edelhagen (1920–1982), German band leader
- Kurt Eisner (1867–1919), writer, revolutionary and politician, first Prime Minister of the Free State of Bavaria
- Kurt Felix (1888–1960), German physiologist
- Kurt Felix (1941–2012), Swiss television presenter
- Kurt Friedrich (1903–1944), German economist and resistance fighter
- Kurt Friedrich (1901–1995), German motorcycle racer
- Kurt Furgler (1924–2008), Swiss Federal Councilor
- Kurt Gerron (1897–1944), German actor
- Kurt Gödel (1906–1978), Austrian-American mathematician and philosopher
- Kurt Goth (1926–1990), German football goalkeeper
- Kurt Großkurth (1909–1975), German actor and singer
- Kurt Gscheidle (1924-2003), German politician (SPD)
- Kurt Haars (1907–1973), German actor
- Kurt Hager (1912–1998), German politician (SED)
- Curt Hansen (* 1964), Danish chess player
- Kurt Hartung (athlete) (* 1925), German athlete
- Kurt Hartung (soccer player) (* 1947), German soccer player
- Kurt Horres (* 1932), German director, theater director and professor at the Folkwang School in Essen
- Kurt Jara (* 1950), Austrian football player and coach
- Curd Jürgens (1915–1982), German-Austrian actor
- Kurt Georg Kiesinger (1904–1988), politician, Federal Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany
- Kurt Krenn (1936–2014), Austrian Roman Catholic bishop
- Kurt Krömer (* 1974), German cabaret artist
- Kurt Laue (* 1922), German soccer goalkeeper
- Kurth Lehr (* 1933), Austrian football player
- Kurt Liebknecht (1905–1994), German-Soviet architect, university professor and SED functionary in the GDR
- Kurt Maetzig (1911–2012), German film director
- Kurt Mansfeld (1910–1984), German motorcycle racer
- Kurt Marti (1921–2017), Swiss writer
- Kurt Masur (1927–2015), German conductor
- Kurt Meier-Boudane (1947–2014), Swiss-Seychellois chess player
- Kurt Mosbakk (* 1934), Norwegian politician
- Xavier Kurt Naidoo (* 1971), German singer
- Kurt Rebmann (1924–2005), German Attorney General
- Kurt Ritter (1909–1944), communist and resistance fighter
- Kurt Schirra (1931–1983), German boxer
- Kurt Freiherr von Schröder (1889–1966), major banker
- Kurt Schumacher (1895–1952), German politician
- Kurt Schuschnigg (1897–1977), Austrian Federal Chancellor
- Kurt Schwitters (1887–1948), universal artist of Dadaism
- Curt Sjöberg (1897–1948), Swedish gymnast and diver
- Kurt Skalnik (1925–1997), Austrian journalist and section head
- Kurt Steinmann (* 1945), Swiss classical philologist and translator
- Kurt Stenzel (1938–2012), German television journalist
- Kurt-Heinz Stolze (1926–1970), German composer, pianist, harpsichordist and conductor
- Kurt Stukenberg (* 1988), German journalist
- Kurt Tschenscher (1928–2014), German football referee
- Kurt Tucholsky (1890–1935), writer and publicist
- Kurt Vonnegut (1922–2007), American writer
- Kurt C. Volkhart (1890–1959), German engineer, racing driver and first driver of a rocket-propelled vehicle
- Kurt Waldheim (1918–2007), Austrian politician (ÖVP), UN Secretary General
- Kurt Weill (1900–1950), German composer
- Kurt Wolff (1887–1963), German publisher
- Kurt Zimmer (canoeist) (1924–2008), German canoeist
- Kurt Zimmer (judge) (1885–1941), German judge
- Kurt Zouma (* 1994), French football player
stage name
- Hofstetter Kurt (* 1959), Austrian visual artist
- Mambo Kurt (* 1967), German musician and solo entertainer
Fictional character
- Kurt Ostbahn (* 1948), Austrian musician
- Kurt Wallander (* 1948), Swedish detective inspector
See also
Wiktionary: Kurt - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
