Cortéz Surname
Approximately 127 people bear this surname
Cortéz Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mexico | 32 | 1:3,878,944 | 25,867 |
| Argentina | 19 | 1:2,249,653 | 107,269 |
| Bolivia | 15 | 1:707,762 | 4,472 |
| Panama | 11 | 1:355,660 | 7,645 |
| Guatemala | 9 | 1:1,786,963 | 6,100 |
| Venezuela | 8 | 1:3,775,510 | 36,567 |
| El Salvador | 8 | 1:792,986 | 3,584 |
| Colombia | 6 | 1:7,962,345 | 23,614 |
| United States | 4 | 1:90,614,733 | 1,198,479 |
| Peru | 3 | 1:10,594,708 | 45,902 |
| Costa Rica | 2 | 1:2,390,034 | 10,205 |
| Chile | 2 | 1:8,808,237 | 65,417 |
| Brazil | 2 | 1:107,037,166 | 1,031,150 |
| Spain | 2 | 1:23,376,018 | 128,922 |
| Ecuador | 1 | 1:15,905,846 | 50,210 |
| Honduras | 1 | 1:8,816,442 | 9,272 |
| Nicaragua | 1 | 1:6,021,090 | 8,768 |
| Australia | 1 | 1:26,995,701 | 270,794 |
The alternate forms: Cortez (614,814), Cortêz (49), Cortèz (9) & Córtez (9) are calculated separately.
Cortéz Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Cortéz Come From? nationality or country of origin
Cortéz is carried by more people in Mexico than any other country/territory. It can also be found as: Cortez, Cortêz, Cortèz or Córtez. For other potential spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Cortéz? popularity and diffusion
It is the 1,596,935th most widely held last name on a worldwide basis It is held by approximately 1 in 57,382,251 people. The last name is predominantly found in The Americas, where 98 percent of Cortéz live; 44 percent live in South America and 25 percent live in Hispano-Central America.
This last name is most widely held in Mexico, where it is borne by 32 people, or 1 in 3,878,944. In Mexico it is primarily found in: Mexico City, where 16 percent reside, Guerrero, where 9 percent reside and Jalisco, where 9 percent reside. Without taking into account Mexico this last name exists in 17 countries. It is also common in Argentina, where 15 percent reside and Bolivia, where 12 percent reside.
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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
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Cortéz
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