Name meaning & stats
Cortez
Cortez. 10,575 US babies since 1940, peak 1990.
What it means
No agreed meaning on record
In US birth records
Peak year: 1990
10,575 US babies were named Cortez between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Cortez (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Spelling family
The most common spelling: 93% of the family
- Cortez 93%
- Kortez 7%
Names that sound the same, grouped by Heyotag. Share of US babies since 1940.
Name twins (peaked around 1990)