Corteź
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Corteź 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 Cortez, variant of Cortés.
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 206(inferred from the name graph)
- NINicaragua≈1 in 536
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 1.1K
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 Corteź 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)
- Sources
- 465 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 206 (inferred from the name graph)
101,694 people, 2010
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
El Salvador, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
From Spanish Cortez, variant of Cortés.
Sources 2
- Wiktionary
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Corteź 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 | 101,694 | 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 | 89,974as Cortes | 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 | 21,319as Cortes | 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 Corteź mean, and where does it come from?
- From Spanish Cortez, variant of Cortés. Recorded by Wiktionary and Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,….
- In which country does Corteź have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 102 thousand people named Corteź, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cortez.
- How common is the name Corteź?
- In the United States, the national register counted 101,694 people named Corteź in 2010, about 1 in 3.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Corteź compared with other names?
- In the United States, Corteź is the 247th most common surname of 6,282,806 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/corte%C5%BAThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Corteź” — the 247th most common surname in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.