Cortes

At the 2020 census, 49,681 Americans bore the surname Cortes — 668th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 6,016.

By the numbers

People: 49,681
Rank: 668th
How common: 1 in 6,016
Per 100,000: 16.6

Where the name comes from

Origin Spanish

From Spanish Cortés.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Cortes described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Hispanic or Latino 92.2%
White, not Hispanic 4.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 2.1%
Black, not Hispanic 0.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Cortes

Hernán Cortés (1485–1547)Spanish conquistador
Juan Donoso Cortés (1809–1853)Spanish author, political theorist and diplomat
Joaquín Cortés (born 1969)Spanish dancer
Roberto Cortés (1905–1975)Chilean footballer
Julio César Cortés (1941–2025)Uruguayan footballer
Urbano Navarrete Cortés (1920–2010)Catholic cardinal
Álvaro Cortés (born 2005)Spanish association football player
Óscar Cortés (born 2003)Colombian footballer

People named Cortes with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Cortes

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.