Cortez
Cortez is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 77 births. Its best rank was 532nd, in 1990.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 770.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1990346 births
- Best rank
- #532in 1990
- Since 1882
- 10,797people given the name
The story in the numbers
10,797 boys have been named Cortez in the United States since 1882, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1990, with 346 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1995, and the 1990s alone account for 25%. It has spent 41 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Cortez | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 5 | |
| 1900s | 5 | |
| 1910s | 100 | |
| 1920s | 118 | |
| 1930s | 129 | |
| 1940s | 117 | |
| 1950s | 228 | |
| 1960s | 378 | |
| 1970s | 814 | |
| 1980s | 1,814 | |
| 1990s | 2,669 | |
| 2000s | 2,033 | |
| 2010s | 1,854 | |
| 2020s | 533 |
In 1990, its biggest year
Cortez was the 532nd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1990 were Michael, Christopher, Matthew, Joshua and Daniel. See all of 1990.
Names that rose and fell with Cortez
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Markuspeak 1994
- Leandrepeak 1991
- Jerrickpeak 1989
- Deangelopeak 1990
- Martezpeak 1992
- Quintonpeak 1996
- Germanpeak 1991
- Montezpeak 1991
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.