The CORTEZ surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	77,492	367	0.029	287
United States (1880 census)	352	12682	0.001	7
Change since 1880	+77140	+12315	+0.028	+280
Other Countries
Australia	125	11666	0.001	8
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for CORTEZ by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	28,534	106	0.084	842
Texas	18,906	150	0.091	907
Illinois	3,149	477	0.025	254
Florida	2,759	987	0.017	173
New York	2,271	1072	0.012	120
Top States for CORTEZ by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	18,906	150	0.091	907
California	28,534	106	0.084	842
Nevada	1,229	201	0.062	615
New Mexico	747	318	0.041	411
Arizona	2,050	356	0.040	400

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of CORTEZ

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 CORTEZ 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 CORTEZ 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 CORTEZ in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	558	0.72
Mixed Race	449	0.58
Native American/Alaskan	256	0.33
White (Hispanic)	68,611	88.54
White (Caucasian)	5,448	7.03
Asian/Pacific	2,162	2.79

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

Similar names to CORTEZ

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CORTEZ.

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.