Kurt
Kurt is a common male first name and a family name.
Variants are: Cord, Curd, Curt, Kurth
Origin and Meaning of the Name
Short form of Konrad ( " The bold Council " )
Derivation of Cunibert ( " Bold and bright " )
As a Turkish surname he has the meaning wolf.
Dissemination
End of the 19th century, Kurt was already a common first name in Germany. His popularity continued to rise, so he was among the ten most popular names of each vintage from the mid-1900s until the late 1920s. Then his popularity declined gradually at first, with the beginning of the sixties rapidly. Since the early seventies, the name is hardly common.
Name-day
Bearers of the name
Family name
- Chandra ( born 1968 ), Swiss wine -author
- Erhan Kurt ( * 1987), the Turkish football player
- Hedwig Kurt (1877 - unknown), German politician (SPD )
- Hildegard Kurt (born 1958 ), German cultural studies scholar
- İsmail Kurt ( b. 1934 ), the Turkish football player
- Kemal Kurt (1947-2002), Turkish writers
- Melanie Kurt (1880-1941), Austrian opera singer (soprano )
- Metin Kurt (1948-2012), Turkish football player and coach and politician
- Michael Kurt ( born 1980 ), Swiss canoeist
- Mustafa Kurt ( * 1968 ), German -Turkish football player
- Okan Kurt ( * 1995), German -Turkish football player
- Rehabilitation Kurt ( * 1989), the Turkish football player
- Sabahudin Kurt ( born 1935 ), Yugoslav singer
- Stefan Kurt ( born 1959 ), Swiss actor
- Ümit Kurt ( * 1991), the Turkish football player
- Yaşar Kurt ( born 1968 ), Armenian rock musician
First name
- Kurt Beck ( born 1949 ), German politician ( SPD)
- Kurt Beckmann (* 1984), German bodybuilder and Adult Performers
- Kurt Biedenkopf (* 1930), German politician ( CDU)
- Kurt Cobain (1967-1994), singer, guitarist, composer and painter
- Kurt Felix (1941-2012), Swiss television presenter
- Kurt Friedrich ( economist ) ( 1903-1944 ), German economist, and resistance fighter
- Kurt Friedrich ( racing driver ) ( 1901-1995 ), German motorcycle racer
- Kurt Gödel (1906-1978), Austrian-American mathematician
- Kurt Großkurth (1909-1975), German actor and singer
- Curt Hansen (born 1964 ), Danish chess player
- Kurt Jara ( born 1950 ), Austrian football player and coach
- Curd Jürgens (1915-1982), German - Austrian actor
- Kiesinger (1904-1988), politician, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany
- Kurt Krenn (1936-2014), Austrian Roman Catholic bishop
- Kurt Kroemer ( born 1974 ), German cabaret artist
- Kurth Lehr ( born 1933 ), Austrian football player
- Kurt Liebknecht (1905-1994), German - Soviet architect, university professor and SED official in the GDR
- Kurt Maetzig (1911-2012), German film director
- Kurt Ritter ( resistance fighters ) ( 1909-1944 ), communist and resistance fighter
- Kurt Freiherr von Schroeder (1889-1966), United Bankers
- Kurt Schumacher (1895-1952), German politician
- Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948), Universal Artists of Dadaism
- Kurt Stenzel (journalist ) ( 1938-2012 ), German television journalist
- Kurt- Heinz Stolze (1926-1970), German composer, pianist, harpsichordist and conductor
- Kurt Tucholsky (1890-1935), writer and journalist
- Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007), American writer
- Kurt Waldheim (1918-2007), Austrian politician (ÖVP ), UN Secretary-General
- Kurt Weill (1900-1950), German composer
- Kurt Wolff (1887-1963), German publisher
- Kurt Zoume (* 1994), French footballer
Artist Name
- Hofstetter Kurt ( born 1959 ), Austrian Visual Artists
- Mambo Kurt ( born 1967), German musician and entertainer
Art figure
- Kurt Eastern Railway ( b. 1948 ), Austrian musician