Côrtës
surname · Latin script
Côrtës is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In the Philippines it is the 28th most common surname. Recorded meaning: From Spanish Cortés, descriptive surname from cortés (“polite”). Compare Cortez, from a variant spelling, by analogy with surnames ending with -ez (patronymic suffix).
- CRCosta Rica1 in 239(measured from records)
- CLChile≈1 in 477
- COColombia≈1 in 490
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Côrtës itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- #232 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 465 (measured from records)
- 1 in 239 (inferred from the name graph)
101,694 named Cortez, 2010
of 19M surnames, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Costa Rica
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Cortez in US United States, PH Philippines, SV El Salvador and 2 more and Cortes in CL Chile, ES Spain, CO Colombia and 1 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)- SpanishCortés(measured from records)
- Spanish rootcortés“polite”(measured from records)
From Spanish Cortés, descriptive surname from cortés (“polite”). Compare Cortez, from a variant spelling, by analogy with surnames ending with -ez (patronymic suffix). For the municipality (formerly named Pamingwitan), multiple theories exist: * Named after Cortés, a village in Navarre, Spain * Named in honor of Hernán Cortés, conqueror of the Aztec Empire. * From cortésimo
Cited for this meaning 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
- Wiktionary
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Côrtës counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #247 | 101,694as Cortez | 1 in 3.3K | 102K | Cortez | 465 |
| CO Colombia | #53 | ≈100,000 est. | ≈1 in 490 | 80 | Cortes | 192 |
| PH Philippines | #28 | ≈100,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Cortez | 137 |
| ES Spain | #45 | 89,974 | 1 in 556 | 90K | Cortes | 206 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈51,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.2K | — | Cortez | 27 |
| CL Chile | #39 | ≈38,000 est. | ≈1 in 477 | — | Cortes | 149 |
| SV El Salvador | #44 | ≈31,000 est. | ≈1 in 206 | 33K | Cortez | 68 |
| CR Costa Rica | #70 | 21,319 | 1 in 239 | 21K | Cortes | 87 |
| NI Nicaragua | #71 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 536 | — | Cortez | 41 |
101,694 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); the co-datosgov-candidates register; El Salvador top-100 surnames (surnam.es / RNPN-derived); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Côrtës mean, and where does it come from?
- From Spanish Cortés, descriptive surname from cortés (“polite”). Compare Cortez, from a variant spelling, by analogy with surnames ending with -ez (patronymic suffix). Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples) and 2 other sources.
- In which country does Côrtës have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 102 thousand people named Cortez, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Côrtës most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Côrtës is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 239 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Côrtës?
- In Spain, the national register counted 89,974 people named Côrtës, about 1 in 556 residents.
- How common is Côrtës compared with other names?
- In the United States, Côrtës is the 247th most common surname of 6,282,806 surnames recorded there.
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About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Côrtës” — the 247th most common surname in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.