Ortiz

surname · Latin script

Meaning: ‘Son of Orti’, a Basque personal name derived from Latin Fortunius

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Ortiz is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country, where it is the 72nd most common surname.

rarermore common
  • PRPuerto Rico≈1 in 72(inferred from the name graph)
  • PYParaguay≈1 in 114
  • ECEcuador1 in 184

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

286,899 people, 2010

#126 (measured from records)

of 19M surnames

4 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
525 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 72 (inferred from the name graph)

Puerto Rico, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

OrtizLatin(measured from records)
ОртисCyrillic(measured from records)
ออร์ทิซThai(measured from records)
ΟρτίζGreek(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

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)

‘Son of Orti’, a Basque personal name derived from Latin Fortunius.

Sources 1

  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Ortiz 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 Ortiz is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States#72286,8991 in 1.2K288KOrtiz525
CO Colombia#18≈250,000 est.≈1 in 200169Ortiz228
AR Argentina#31156,0201 in 291156KOrtiz166
ES Spain#30114,4471 in 437114KOrtiz251
EC Ecuador—91,6301 in 18492KOrtiz107
PY Paraguay#14≈63,000 est.≈1 in 114—Ortiz82
PR Puerto Rico#11≈44,000 est.≈1 in 72—Ortiz132
SV El Salvador#40≈33,000 est.≈1 in 19635KOrtiz80

286,899 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); the co-datosgov-candidates register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); El Salvador top-100 surnames (surnam.es / RNPN-derived); INEC — civil registry 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Ortiz is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name7 spellings in the group

    Also written Ortiź, Ortìz, Órtiz, Ortíz

  • French surname11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Spain, Philippines

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Ortíz, Õřtīź, Örtïz, Ôrtîž, Ôrtiz

  • Hungarian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Hungary, United States, Spain, Peru

    Also written Órtïz, Ortíz

  • Norwegian surname12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Norway, Spain, Denmark

    Languages: Norwegian, Swedish, Danish

    Also written Ortíz, Örtïz, Örtiz, Öřțìz

  • Polish surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Poland, Spain, United Kingdom

    Also written Ortíz, Õrtįź, Ortïz, Ôřťiz

  • Korean surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, South Korea, United Kingdom, Paraguay

    Also written Ortíz, 오르티스

  • Croatian surname19 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain, Peru, Philippines

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Serbian

    Also written Ортиз, Ortíz, Ortìz, Õrtïz, Ortiž

84 further groups 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

18501900195020002050Pascual Ortiz Rubio, b. 1877Roberto Marcelino Ortiz, b. 1886Angélica María, b. 1944John Ortiz, b. 1968Ana Ortiz, b. 1971Letizia Ortiz, b. 1972Nora Salinas, b. 1976Idalys Ortiz, b. 1989Leonor, Princess of Asturias, b. 2005Infanta Sofía of Spain, b. 2007

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 52 sources across 27 countries.

Official registers attesting Ortiz
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020288K#68
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010287K#68
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000215K#94
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—156K—
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—114K#36
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—114K#36
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names202492K#29
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)—92K—
SV El SalvadorEl Salvador top-100 surnames (surnam.es / RNPN-derived)—35K#43
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)19951.8K—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)20101.7K—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)20091.7K—

Reference works 7

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Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Ortiz mean, and where does it come from?
‘Son of Orti’, a Basque personal name derived from Latin Fortunius. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
In which country does Ortiz have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 287 thousand people named Ortiz, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ortiz.
How common is the name Ortiz?
In the United States, the national register counted 286,899 people named Ortiz in 2010, about 1 in 1.2 thousand residents.
How common is Ortiz compared with other names?
In the United States, Ortiz is the 72nd 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, “Ortiz” — the 72nd most common surname in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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