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The CORTES surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 30,141 1061 0.011 112
United States (1880 census) 283 14920 0.001 6
Change since 1880 +29858 +13859 +0.01 +106
Other Countries
Australia 154 9626 0.001 9
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for CORTES by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 7,780 547 0.023 230
Florida 4,571 572 0.029 286
New York 3,067 760 0.016 162
Texas 2,558 1339 0.012 123
New Jersey 1,862 587 0.022 221
Top States for CORTES by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Florida 4,571 572 0.029 286
California 7,780 547 0.023 230
Nevada 448 679 0.022 224
New Jersey 1,862 587 0.022 221
New York 3,067 760 0.016 162

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called CORTES live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called CORTES represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called CORTES in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a CORTES by picking someone at random in Florida than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of CORTES

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Spain

Language of origin: Spanish

Ethnic origin: Iberian

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the CORTES surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the CORTES surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of CORTES in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Asian/Pacific 732 2.43
Black/African American 389 1.29
Mixed Race 139 0.46
Native American/Alaskan 36 0.12
White (Hispanic) 26,144 86.74
White (Caucasian) 2,701 8.96

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the CORTES surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of CORTES in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of CORTES.

Similar names to CORTES

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CORTES.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for CORTES

The following words are slight variants of CORTES that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.