as a Last Name
- 28,584
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Cortes
Meaning & Origins
Spanish (Cortés), Catalan (Cortès), and Portuguese (Cortês): from cortés ‘courteous’, ‘polite’, a derivative of corte (see Corte), a nickname for a refined person, sometimes no doubt given ironically.
| 1,243rd in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 28,584
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Puerto Rico
- has the most people named Cortes per capita
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