Given name & surname
Kort
“one who provides counsel”
Kort is used as a given name and a surname. One Danish interpretation is “one who provides counsel.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Danish interpretation is “one who provides counsel.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Danish.
How it developed
In Dutch use, Kort is used as a form of Kurt.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1947. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Kort through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 536
- 536 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2004
- 24 babies
- 2025
- 8
- #9,359 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −40%
- Cooling
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 8 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 9,359 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 24 in 2004. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 524 as a first name in 2020; 1,211 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.
Kort’s family of names
Kort shares a linguistic root with Kurt. Kort has a related form in Korte. Kort is a form of Kurt.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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