Forteza
surname · Latin script
Meaning: fortress
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/foɾteθa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Forteza is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- UYUruguay1 in 13K(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 35K
- ARArgentina1 in 282K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Sources
- 5 (measured from records)
- 1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
1,425 people
Reference-verified
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(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)
fortress
Sources 1
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Where in the world(measured from records)
Forteza 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.
1,425 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
Forteza is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Filipino, a surname from Spanish, most notably borne by
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)
- Tomás Aguiló Fortezab. 1812ESSpanish writer, journalist and poet (1812–1884)
- Miquel Fortezab. 1888ESSpanish writer and engineer (1888-1969)
- Guillem Forteza Pinyab. 1892ESspanish architect, urbanist and politician
- Francisco Fortezab. 1892UYUruguayan politician (1892-1967)
- Francesc de Sales Aguiló Fortezab. 1899ESSpanish politician (1899-1956)
- Xesc Forteza Fortezab. 1926ESSpanish theatre director, actor and playwright (1926-1999)
- Lorena Fortezab. 1976COColombian actor and model
- Paula Fortezab. 1986FRFrench politician
- Fabiola Fortezab. 1995CACanadian rugby union player
- Barbie Fortezab. 1997PHFilipino actress
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 17 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 1.4K | #3,249 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 1.4K | #3,247 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 266 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 246 | #82,600 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 203 | #90,853 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 182 | #93,427 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 161 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 106 | #60,636 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 3 | #75,963 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Forteza mean, and where does it come from?
- fortress Recorded by Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,….
- How do you pronounce Forteza?
- A machine transcription gives /foɾteθa/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Forteza have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 1.4 thousand people named Forteza, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled forteza.
- Where is Forteza most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Forteza is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 13 thousand people — even though Spain holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Forteza?
- In Spain, the national register counted 1,425 people named Forteza, about 1 in 35 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/fortezaThe 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, “Forteza”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.