Cortez

95,625 people in the United States were counted with the surname Cortez in the 2020 census, making it the 327th most common in the country. That is about one person in 3,126.

By the numbers

People: 95,625
Rank: 327th
How common: 1 in 3,126
Per 100,000: 32.0

Where the name comes from

Origin Spanish

From Spanish Cortez, variant of Cortés.

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

Who bears the name

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

Hispanic or Latino 88.5%
White, not Hispanic 6.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 3.3%
Black, not Hispanic 0.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Cortez

Bruno Cortez (born 1987)Brazilian association football player
Catherine Cortez Masto (born 1964)American lawyer and politician
Ricardo Cortez (1900–1977)American actor
Alberto Cortez (1940–2019)Argentine singer

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

Surnames like Cortez

Also a first name

Cortez has been given to 10,988 American babies as a first name since 1882, peaking in 1990. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

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.