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    The surname Cortorreal

    A Spanish surname, carried by 520 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex C636

    Cortorreal: #41,799 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Cortorreal #41,799, 520 people Cortorreal: #41,799 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Cortorreal #41,799, 520 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Cortorreal is more common than 74.2% of them.

    Origin

    Spanish origin

    Borrowed from Spanish Cortorreal; this surname is predominantly found in the Dominican Republic.

    One of 992 Spanish surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 520 people named Cortorreal in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 593,741 Americans. That is up 81% since 2000, when the Census counted 288.

    #41,799
    rank among US surnames
    520
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +80.6%
    change since 2000 (was #64,572)

    Who is named Cortorreal

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

    96% of people named Cortorreal identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), 1.9% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.5% as white (not Hispanic).

    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 96%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 1.9%
    • White (not Hispanic) 1.5%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.0%

    Compare: most common surnames among Hispanic and Latino Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Cortorreal

    Cortorreal has the Soundex code C636, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C636.

    Other Spanish surnames

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    Questions

    Where does the surname Cortorreal come from?
    Borrowed from Spanish Cortorreal; this surname is predominantly found in the Dominican Republic.
    How common is the surname Cortorreal?
    520 people in the United States had the surname Cortorreal in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 593,741 Americans. It ranked 41,799th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Cortorreal?
    In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Cortorreal identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), and 1.9% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Cortorreal getting more or less common?
    More common. 288 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 520 in 2010, up 81%.