About the name Curtiss
Curtiss belongs to the English & American tradition. Its roots are documented, even though its precise meaning is not recorded in the standard references — an honest gap we prefer to a confident guess.
In the United States, Curtiss first appears in Social Security records in 1896. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #674 in 1943, and in 2024 5 babies received the name — 5,074 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.