Cortès Surname
Approximately 155 people bear this surname
Cortès Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mexico | 61 | 1:2,034,856 | 18,943 |
| Spain | 37 | 1:1,263,569 | 42,239 |
| France | 18 | 1:3,690,151 | 224,666 |
| Chile | 8 | 1:2,202,059 | 30,910 |
| Costa Rica | 5 | 1:956,014 | 6,058 |
| Switzerland | 5 | 1:1,642,583 | 87,307 |
| United States | 5 | 1:72,491,787 | 1,102,614 |
| Argentina | 4 | 1:10,685,854 | 219,200 |
| Belgium | 3 | 1:3,832,215 | 117,288 |
| Colombia | 3 | 1:15,924,691 | 28,711 |
| Panama | 2 | 1:1,956,129 | 15,285 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
| Nicaragua | 1 | 1:6,021,090 | 8,768 |
| Venezuela | 1 | 1:30,204,077 | 85,459 |
The alternate forms: Cortes (838,977), Cortés (4,970), Cortês (370), Côrtes (298), Córtes (10), Cõrtes (2), Córtés (1) & Cörtes (1) are calculated separately.
Cortès Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Cortès Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Cortès is held by more people in Mexico than any other country/territory. It can be rendered in the variant forms: Cortes, Cortés, Cortês, Côrtes, Córtes, Cõrtes, Córtés or Cörtes. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Cortès? popularity and diffusion
The last name Cortès is the 1,403,590th most commonly used last name on a worldwide basis, held by approximately 1 in 47,016,425 people. This last name is primarily found in The Americas, where 59 percent of Cortès live; 43 percent live in North America and 39 percent live in Hispano-North America.
The last name is most frequent in Mexico, where it is borne by 61 people, or 1 in 2,034,856. In Mexico it is most prevalent in: Mexico City, where 16 percent live, Guanajuato, where 10 percent live and Puebla, where 10 percent live. Not including Mexico this last name exists in 14 countries. It is also common in Spain, where 24 percent live and France, where 12 percent live.
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Footnotes
- Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
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- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
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