Cortesia
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: Familienaam.be, 2008
/koɾtesja/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Cortesia is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Venezuela than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Old French cortoisie.
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 15K(inferred from the name graph)
- ITItaly≈1 in 380K
- BRBrazil1 in 967K
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.
- Venezuela (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 29 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 15K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,900 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Venezuela, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Cortesia
- Spanish:/koɾtesja/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)From Old French cortoisie.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Cortesia is found
(measured from records)Cortesia 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VE Venezuela | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Cortesia | 29 |
| BR Brazil | 219 | 1 in 967K | 219 | — | — |
| IT Italy | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 376K | listed | — | 4 |
| ES Spain | 29 | 1 in 1.7M | 29 | Cortesia | 13 |
| CO Colombia | ≈24 est. | ≈1 in 2.2M | — | Cortesia | 12 |
| GT Guatemala | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 905K | — | Cortesia | 4 |
| BE Belgium | 10 | 1 in 1.2M | 10 | — | 2 |
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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); the xinhua-italian-manual register. 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Cortesia is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Catalan, courtesy, politeness (polite behaviour)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, courtesy, politeness; favour/favor
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Portuguese, courtesy (polite behaviour)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Cortesia Seregob. 1335ITItalian condottiero and ambassador
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)9 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Cortesia mean, and where does it come from?
- From Old French cortoisie. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- What are other forms of the name Cortesia?
- In the etymology graph, Cortese is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Cortesia?
- In Spanish /koɾtesja/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Cortesia?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.9 thousand people named Cortesia in Venezuela, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cortesia. After it come Brazil, Italy, Spain and Colombia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Cortesia?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 219 people named Cortesia, about 1 in 967 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Cortesia?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cortesiaThe 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, “Cortesia”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.