Meaning not yet researched.
Cortez: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 101 in 2025. Its best rank was #532 in 1990.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #532 in 1990; #1,655 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Cortez in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,655 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1990, at #532.
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Cortez: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 101 boys in 2025. Peak: #532 in 1990 · most boys in one year: 346 (1990).
In 2025, 101 US boys were named Cortez, making it the 1,655th most common boys’ name of the year, up 343 places from #1,998 in 2024. That is 24 more than the 77 boys named Cortez in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #532, reached in 1990. That year also had the most boys given the name: 346. For comparison, it was #1,042 in 2015 and #1,957 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Cortez in 114 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1882 with 5 babies. In all, 10,988 US babies have been given the name, 0.8% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 2,674 babies named Cortez.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,269 US boys were named Cortez; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 176. In 2025 that was about 1 in 16,912 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Cortez ranked highest in Mississippi in 2025, at #545 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Kortez, Courtez and Cortaz are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Kortez (816), Courtez (102), Cortaz (12), Corteze (6).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Cortez in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 45 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | 5 | #545 | — |
| Louisiana | 6 | #685 | #588 |
| Michigan | 8 | #846 | #460 |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,390 | #741 |
| Texas | 12 | #1,499 | #1,472 |
| California | 7 | #2,030 | #2,087 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 101 | #1,655 |
| 2024 | — | — | 77 | #1,998 |
| 2023 | — | — | 84 | #1,881 |
| 2022 | — | — | 104 | #1,655 |
| 2021 | — | — | 145 | #1,301 |
| 2020 | — | — | 124 | #1,400 |
| 2019 | — | — | 147 | #1,272 |
| 2018 | — | — | 149 | #1,239 |
| 2017 | — | — | 176 | #1,104 |
| 2016 | — | — | 162 | #1,177 |
| 2015 | — | — | 192 | #1,042 |
| 2014 | — | — | 195 | #1,036 |
| 2013 | — | — | 229 | #908 |
| 2012 | — | — | 195 | #1,012 |
| 2011 | — | — | 195 | #996 |
| 2010 | — | — | 214 | #941 |
| 2009 | — | — | 227 | #909 |
| 2008 | — | — | 200 | #985 |
| 2007 | — | — | 205 | #960 |
| 2006 | — | — | 200 | #937 |
| 2005 | — | — | 223 | #833 |
| 2004 | — | — | 185 | #919 |
| 2003 | — | — | 195 | #877 |
| 2002 | — | — | 163 | #971 |
| 2001 | — | — | 205 | #813 |
| 2000 | — | — | 230 | #741 |
| 1999 | — | — | 240 | #698 |
| 1998 | — | — | 209 | #764 |
| 1997 | — | — | 213 | #730 |
| 1996 | — | — | 209 | #732 |
| 1995 | — | — | 235 | #695 |
| 1994 | — | — | 280 | #623 |
| 1993 | — | — | 313 | #582 |
| 1992 | — | — | 301 | #593 |
| 1991 | — | — | 323 | #564 |
| 1990 | 5 | #13,426 | 346 | #532 |
| 1989 | — | — | 320 | #542 |
| 1988 | — | — | 234 | #618 |
| 1987 | 5 | #11,674 | 218 | #614 |
| 1986 | 7 | #8,728 | 210 | #616 |
| 1985 | — | — | 191 | #637 |
| 1984 | — | — | 157 | #697 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,269 | 145 | #714 |
| 1982 | — | — | 118 | #814 |
| 1981 | — | — | 113 | #828 |
| 1980 | 5 | #10,714 | 108 | #852 |
| 1979 | — | — | 96 | #891 |
| 1978 | — | — | 105 | #837 |
| 1977 | — | — | 95 | #870 |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,582 | 97 | #846 |
| 1975 | — | — | 86 | #891 |
| 1974 | — | — | 66 | #1,008 |
| 1973 | — | — | 88 | #844 |
| 1972 | — | — | 67 | #990 |
| 1971 | — | — | 60 | #1,051 |
| 1970 | — | — | 54 | #1,118 |
| 1969 | — | — | 45 | #1,172 |
| 1968 | — | — | 35 | #1,291 |
| 1967 | — | — | 37 | #1,232 |
| 1966 | — | — | 30 | #1,405 |
| 1965 | — | — | 44 | #1,130 |
| 1964 | — | — | 37 | #1,290 |
| 1963 | — | — | 34 | #1,340 |
| 1962 | — | — | 45 | #1,152 |
| 1961 | — | — | 28 | #1,528 |
| 1960 | — | — | 43 | #1,195 |
| 1959 | — | — | 34 | #1,339 |
| 1958 | — | — | 17 | #1,964 |
| 1957 | — | — | 22 | #1,724 |
| 1956 | — | — | 31 | #1,391 |
| 1955 | — | — | 32 | #1,345 |
| 1954 | — | — | 28 | #1,442 |
| 1953 | — | — | 14 | #2,114 |
| 1952 | — | — | 22 | #1,628 |
| 1951 | — | — | 13 | #2,156 |
| 1950 | — | — | 15 | #1,957 |
| 1949 | — | — | 21 | #1,626 |
| 1948 | — | — | 15 | #1,958 |
| 1947 | — | — | 17 | #1,865 |
| 1946 | — | — | 11 | #2,299 |
| 1945 | — | — | 14 | #1,869 |
| 1944 | — | — | 15 | #1,830 |
| 1942 | — | — | 14 | #1,967 |
| 1941 | — | — | 10 | #2,374 |
| 1939 | — | — | 9 | #2,490 |
| 1938 | — | — | 11 | #2,214 |
| 1937 | — | — | 13 | #2,015 |
| 1936 | — | — | 14 | #1,893 |
| 1935 | — | — | 12 | #2,150 |
| 1934 | — | — | 10 | #2,426 |
| 1933 | — | — | 15 | #1,844 |
| 1932 | — | — | 8 | #2,894 |
| 1931 | — | — | 20 | #1,597 |
| 1930 | — | — | 17 | #1,834 |
| 1929 | — | — | 11 | #2,472 |
| 1928 | 5 | #4,863 | 8 | #3,129 |
| 1927 | — | — | 6 | #3,860 |
| 1926 | 6 | #4,413 | 12 | #2,454 |
| 1925 | — | — | 17 | #1,949 |
| 1924 | 7 | #4,084 | 8 | #3,317 |
| 1923 | — | — | 16 | #2,040 |
| 1922 | — | — | 16 | #2,061 |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,275 | 15 | #2,170 |
| 1920 | 6 | #4,504 | 9 | #3,010 |
| 1919 | 7 | #3,911 | 13 | #2,288 |
| 1918 | 6 | #4,393 | 17 | #1,923 |
| 1917 | — | — | 17 | #1,836 |
| 1916 | — | — | 14 | #2,067 |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,426 | 13 | #2,092 |
| 1914 | — | — | 9 | #2,311 |
| 1912 | 9 | #2,010 | 8 | #1,917 |
| 1911 | — | — | 9 | #1,209 |
| 1909 | — | — | 5 | #1,500 |
| 1882 | — | — | 5 | #967 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).