Given name & surname
Curtiss
“one who is courteous; polite”
Curtiss is a variant of Curtis. One English interpretation is “one who is courteous; polite.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Curtiss is a variant of Curtis. One English interpretation is “one who is courteous; polite.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Curtiss is a variant of Curtis. An origin associated with Curtis is English.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1896. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. Curtiss is a variant of Curtis. The history of Curtis gives this family its wider story. Curtis’s naming history includes the use of a family name as a given name.
Combines direct and name-family evidence
Curtiss through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 5,074
- 5,074 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1959
- 126 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 126 in 1959. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 2,442 as a first name in 2020; 5,231 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Curtiss’s family of names
Curtiss has a related form in Curtis.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Curtiss
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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