Kortés

surname · Latin script

Kortés is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

  • FIFinland1 in 130K(measured from records)
  • NLNetherlands1 in 178K
  • PLPoland1 in 1.7M

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

199 people, 2010

Record sources
11 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 130K (inferred from the name graph)

Finland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Kortes in US United States, BR Brazil, ES Spain.

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Kortés 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.

Where Kortés is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States1991 in 1.7M200KorteS11
NL Netherlands971 in 178K97—2
FI Finland431 in 130K43——
PL Poland231 in 1.7M12——
BR Brazil211 in 10M21KorteS3
ES Spain61 in 8.3M6KorteS3

199 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling kortes. 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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).

Other names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Kortés is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written KorteS

1 further group record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Kortés under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Kortés have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 199 people named Kortés, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled KorteS.
Where is Kortés most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kortés is densest in Finland — about 1 in 130 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Kortés?
In the United States, the national register counted 199 people named Kortés in 2010, about 1 in 1.7 million residents.

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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, “Kortés”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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