About the name Cortez
Cortez belongs to the English & American tradition. Its roots are documented, even though its precise meaning is not recorded in the standard references — an honest gap we prefer to a confident guess.
In the United States, Cortez first appears in Social Security records in 1882. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #532 in 1990, and in 2024 77 babies received the name — 10,797 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.