Cortese

At the 2020 census, 3,980 Americans bore the surname Cortese — 7,981st out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 75,100.

By the numbers

People: 3,980
Rank: 7,981st
How common: 1 in 75,100
Per 100,000: 1.3

Where the name comes from

Origin Italian

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 90.8%
Hispanic or Latino 5.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
Black, not Hispanic 0.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Cortese

Valentina Cortese (1923–2019)Italian actress
Sandro Cortese (born 1990)German motorcycle racer
Isabella Cortese (1550–1561)16th-century Italian alchemist and writer
Leonardo Cortese (1916–1984)Italian actor and film director

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

Surnames like Cortese

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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.