Kortez
Kortez was given to 14 boys in 2025, #6,292 among boys’ names; 816 Americans have been recorded with it since 1978 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kortez by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kortez?
#6,292 among boys’ names, 2025
Kortez fell from #5,633 in 2015 to #6,292 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 8.3 to 8.2 per million.
36 babies in 2020, the peak
Kortez peaked in 2020, when 36 boys were given it, #3,171 among boys’ names. The 14 births of 2025 are 39% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #6,292 | 8.2 |
| 2024 | 24 | #4,384 | 13.9 |
| 2023 | 31 | #3,673 | 18.1 |
| 2022 | 26 | #4,144 | 14.9 |
| 2021 | 29 | #3,779 | 16.6 |
| 2020 | 36 | #3,171 | 20.9 |
| 2019 | 28 | #3,852 | 15.6 |
| 2018 | 20 | #4,848 | 11.0 |
| 2017 | 21 | #4,676 | 11.3 |
| 2016 | 23 | #4,413 | 12.1 |
Every recorded year (43)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 16 | #5,633 | 8.3 |
| 2014 | 33 | #3,340 | 17.2 |
| 2013 | 30 | #3,544 | 15.9 |
| 2012 | 31 | #3,490 | 16.3 |
| 2011 | 24 | #4,166 | 12.6 |
| 2010 | 27 | #3,861 | 14.1 |
| 2009 | 21 | #4,677 | 10.6 |
| 2008 | 24 | #4,204 | 11.8 |
| 2007 | 17 | #5,331 | 8.2 |
| 2006 | 21 | #4,436 | 10.2 |
| 2005 | 16 | #5,167 | 8.0 |
| 2004 | 23 | #3,946 | 11.6 |
| 2003 | 19 | #4,350 | 9.6 |
| 2002 | 14 | #5,276 | 7.2 |
| 2001 | 16 | #4,797 | 8.2 |
| 2000 | 21 | #3,857 | 10.7 |
| 1999 | 13 | #5,194 | 6.8 |
| 1998 | 18 | #3,937 | 9.4 |
| 1997 | 14 | #4,579 | 7.4 |
| 1996 | 13 | #4,767 | 6.9 |
| 1995 | 15 | #4,170 | 7.9 |
| 1994 | 18 | #3,681 | 9.3 |
| 1993 | 11 | #5,207 | 5.6 |
| 1992 | 18 | #3,535 | 9.0 |
| 1991 | 14 | #4,128 | 6.9 |
| 1990 | 15 | #3,878 | 7.3 |
| 1989 | 9 | #5,401 | 4.5 |
| 1988 | 7 | #6,147 | 3.7 |
| 1987 | 17 | #3,023 | 9.1 |
| 1986 | 8 | #5,120 | 4.3 |
| 1985 | 6 | #6,191 | 3.2 |
| 1979 | 6 | #5,752 | 3.5 |
| 1978 | 9 | #4,019 | 5.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kortez a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kortez has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 43 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kortez: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kortez, and how old are they?
An estimated 801 Americans named Kortez and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 8 and 27. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 490 people named Kortez (3 women and girls, 487 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 655 born in the U.S. The Census count is 25% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
How common is the spelling Kortez?
Kortez is a less common spelling of Cortez: SSA has recorded 816 Kortez and 10,988 Cortez since 1880.
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 11,906 babies since 1880, Kortez is the second most given (6.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 14 of their 115 babies (12%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Kortez
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Kortez and names like it
- Compare Kortez and CortezBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sKortez peaked in 2020.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kortez since 1910.
- The top names of 2020The year the most babies were named Kortez.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Kortez alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.