Kortez
- #6,143 for boys in 2025, 14 births
- Peak · boys
- 1987 · 17 births
- Debut · boys
- 9 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 816since 1978
Kortez over time
boys
Rank among boys' names. Kortez has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #6,143 | 14 |
| 2024 | #4,321 | 24 |
| 2023 | #3,629 | 31 |
| 2022 | #4,089 | 26 |
| 2021 | #3,740 | 29 |
| 2020 | #3,136 | 36 |
| 2019 | #3,794 | 28 |
| 2018 | #4,739 | 20 |
| 2017 | #4,594 | 21 |
| 2016 | #4,327 | 23 |
| 2015 | #5,507 | 16 |
| 2014 | #3,297 | 33 |
| 2013 | #3,497 | 30 |
| 2012 | #3,450 | 31 |
| 2011 | #4,110 | 24 |
| 2010 | #3,812 | 27 |
| 2009 | #4,582 | 21 |
| 2008 | #4,145 | 24 |
| 2007 | #5,210 | 17 |
| 2006 | #4,370 | 21 |
| 2005 | #5,034 | 16 |
| 2004 | #3,860 | 23 |
| 2003 | #4,276 | 19 |
| 2002 | #5,131 | 14 |
| 2001 | #4,676 | 16 |
| 2000 | #3,764 | 21 |
| 1999 | #5,035 | 13 |
| 1998 | #3,849 | 18 |
| 1997 | #4,451 | 14 |
| 1996 | #4,613 | 13 |
| 1995 | #4,052 | 15 |
| 1994 | #3,596 | 18 |
| 1993 | #5,002 | 11 |
| 1992 | #3,459 | 18 |
| 1991 | #4,005 | 14 |
| 1990 | #3,779 | 15 |
| 1989 | #5,165 | 9 |
| 1988 | #5,751 | 7 |
| 1987 | #2,942 | 17 |
| 1986 | #4,853 | 8 |
| 1985 | #5,785 | 6 |
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| 1979 | #5,355 | 6 |
| 1978 | #3,857 | 9 |
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First appearance
1978
The first year at least five boys were named Kortez! It came in at #3,857, and was given to 9 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1980–1984, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Kortez is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more boys named Kortez in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
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Momentum · boys
Falling
- 1,822 spots since 2024 (#4,321 → #6,143)
- 3,007 spots since 2020 (#3,136 → #6,143)
- 636 spots since 2015 (#5,507 → #6,143)
Rise & fade · boys
9 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1978
- Peaked 1987 at #2,942 (17 births)
- Births halved by 1988, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 47,947
- Highest: 1 in 47,947 boys born in 2020 were named Kortez (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 122,005 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #2,942 in 1987, was only 1 in 109,823 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2010s
- 31.0% of all boys named Kortez (253) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1970s | 15 | #3,857 (1978) | #4,606 |
| 1980s | 47 | #2,942 (1987) | #4,899 |
| 1990s | 149 | #3,459 (1992) | #4,184 |
| 2000s | 192 | #3,764 (2000) | #4,505 |
| 2010s | 253 | #3,297 (2014) | #4,113 |
| 2020s | 160 | #3,136 (2020) | #4,176 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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