# Cortez (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/cortez/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 10,988 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 10,899 / 89 (1% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 37, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1912 | 9 | 2,010 |
| 1915 | 5 | 4,426 |
| 1918 | 6 | 4,393 |
| 1919 | 7 | 3,911 |
| 1920 | 6 | 4,504 |
| 1921 | 5 | 5,275 |
| 1924 | 7 | 4,084 |
| 1926 | 6 | 4,413 |
| 1928 | 5 | 4,863 |
| 1976 | 5 | 9,582 |
| 1980 | 5 | 10,714 |
| 1983 | 6 | 9,269 |
| 1986 | 7 | 8,728 |
| 1987 | 5 | 11,674 |
| 1990 | 5 | 13,426 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 195 | 996 |
| 2012 | 195 | 1,012 |
| 2013 | 229 | 908 |
| 2014 | 195 | 1,036 |
| 2015 | 192 | 1,042 |
| 2016 | 162 | 1,177 |
| 2017 | 176 | 1,104 |
| 2018 | 149 | 1,239 |
| 2019 | 147 | 1,272 |
| 2020 | 124 | 1,400 |
| 2021 | 145 | 1,301 |
| 2022 | 104 | 1,655 |
| 2023 | 84 | 1,881 |
| 2024 | 77 | 1,998 |
| 2025 | 101 | 1,655 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 3 | 3,849 |
| 2006 | 4 | 3,385 |
| 2008 | 3 | 4,432 |
| 2009 | 4 | 3,744 |
| 2010 | 5 | 3,332 |
| 2012 | 3 | 4,805 |
| 2015 | 5 | 3,373 |
| 2018 | 3 | 4,749 |
| 2022 | 3 | 4,789 |
| 2023 | 4 | 4,107 |

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.