How common is the surname Cortese?

4,221 people in the United States had the surname Cortese in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 73,145 Americans. It ranked 7,844th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Cortese?

In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Cortese identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Who is the most famous person named Cortese?

Isabella Cortese, 16th-century Italian alchemist and writer, followed by Joseph Cortese.

Where is the surname Cortese most common?

Wikidata records people named Cortese in the United States.

Is the surname Cortese getting more or less common?

More common. 4,109 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,221 in 2010, up 2.7%.

The surname Cortese

An Italian surname, carried by 4,221 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex C632

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Cortese is more common than 95.2% of them.

Origin

Italian origin

Borrowed from Italian Cortese.

One of 798 Italian surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 4,221 people named Cortese in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 73,145 Americans. That is up 2.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,109.

#7,844

rank among US surnames

4,221

people in 2010

1.4

per 100,000 Americans

+2.7%

change since 2000 (was #7,473)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#7,841	Sperling	4,224	73,093
#7,842	Paden	4,223	73,110
#7,843	Look	4,222	73,128
#7,844	Glasser	4,221	73,145

Who is named Cortese

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

93% of people named Cortese identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.4% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 93%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4.4%
Two or more races 1.4%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Corteses

4 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Isabella Cortese
16th-century Italian alchemist and writer, 1550–1561
Joseph Cortese
American actor, born 1948
Dan Cortese
American actor and director, born 1967
Genevieve Padalecki
American actress, born 1981

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Cortese

Cortese has the Soundex code C632, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C632.

Other Italian surnames

All 798 Italian surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Cortese come from?: Borrowed from Italian Cortese.
How common is the surname Cortese?: 4,221 people in the United States had the surname Cortese in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 73,145 Americans. It ranked 7,844th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Cortese?: In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Cortese identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Who is the most famous person named Cortese?: Isabella Cortese, 16th-century Italian alchemist and writer, followed by Joseph Cortese.
Where is the surname Cortese most common?: Wikidata records people named Cortese in the United States.
Is the surname Cortese getting more or less common?: More common. 4,109 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,221 in 2010, up 2.7%.