Cortina
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: curtain
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/koɾtina/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Cortina is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 15K(measured from records)
- COColombia≈1 in 22K
- ARArgentina1 in 47K
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.
- Spain (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 220 (measured from records)
- 1 in 15K (inferred from the name graph)
3,377 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
curtain
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
How Cortina is read(measured from records)
Cortina is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish65%
curtain
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English24%
A cobweb-like annulus on certain types of mushroom.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Cortina 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | — | 3,377 | 1 in 15K | 3.4K | Cortina | 133 |
| US United States | — | 3,031 | 1 in 110K | 3K | Cortina | 220 |
| CO Colombia | — | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 22K | 1 | Cortina | 52 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 65K | — | Cortina | 32 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 209K | — | Cortina | 1 |
| AR Argentina | — | 968 | 1 in 47K | 968 | Cortina | 59 |
| CU Cuba | #749 | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 50K | — | Cortina | 14 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 71 | 1 in 48K | 71 | — | 11 |
3,377 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); the co-datosgov-candidates register; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
Cortina is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Asturian, curtain (piece of cloth covering a window)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, cauldron, kettle
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)
- Juan Cortinab. 1824MXMexican politician
- José Gómez-Acebo y Cortinab. 1860ESSpanish lawyer and politician (1860-1932)
- Francesc Arnau i Cortinab. 1889ESpolitician
- Pedro Cortina y Maurib. 1908ESMinister of Foreign Affairs (1908-1993)
- Alfonso Cortinab. 1944ESSpanish businessman
- Alberto Cortinab. 1947ESSpanish businessman
- Adela Cortina Ortsb. 1947ESSpanish philosopher
- Pat Cortinab. 1964DECanadian ice hockey coach
- Javier Cortinab. 1987CUOlympic wrestler
- Eduardo Cortina Garcíab. 1996ESSpanish association football player
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)
Attested in 27 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 3.4K | #1,526 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 3.4K | #1,526 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3K | #10,577 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.9K | #10,674 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.3K | #12,248 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 968 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 71 | — |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 1 | #115 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Cortina mean, and where does it come from?
- curtain Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Cortina?
- A machine transcription gives /koɾtina/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Cortina have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 3.4 thousand people named Cortina, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cortina.
- Where is Cortina most common?
- Cortina is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 15 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Cortina?
- In Spain, the national register counted 3,377 people named Cortina, about 1 in 15 thousand residents.
- How common is Cortina compared with other names?
- In Cuba, Cortina is the 749th most common surname of 21,589 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cortinaThe 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, “Cortina” — the 749th most common surname in Cuba. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.