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How popular is “Cortez” in the USA?

Number of people named “Cortez” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Cortez” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Cortez” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Cortez” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Cortez” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Cortez” by birth year

This chart shows how “Cortez” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1882 5 0.00002257 5 -100%
1909 5 0.00000978 5 -100%
1911 9 0.000013969 9 -100%
1912 17 0.000017205 9 8 6%
1914 9 0.000006354 9 -100%
1915 18 0.000009823 5 13 -44%
1916 14 0.000007237 14 -100%
1917 17 0.000008471 17 -100%
1918 23 0.000010594 6 17 -48%
1919 20 0.000009478 7 13 -30%
1920 15 0.000006629 6 9 -20%
1921 20 0.000008567 5 15 -50%
1922 16 0.000006989 16 -100%
1923 16 0.000006949 16 -100%
1924 15 0.000006298 7 8 -7%
1925 17 0.000007286 17 -100%
1926 18 0.00000784 6 12 -33%
1927 6 0.000002587 6 -100%
1928 13 0.00000575 5 8 -23%
1929 11 0.000005018 11 -100%
1930 17 0.000007646 17 -100%
1931 20 0.000009504 20 -100%
1932 8 0.000003789 8 -100%
1933 15 0.000007502 15 -100%
1934 10 0.000004815 10 -100%
1935 12 0.000005742 12 -100%
1936 14 0.000006739 14 -100%
1937 13 0.000006101 13 -100%
1938 11 0.000004972 11 -100%
1939 9 0.000004085 9 -100%
1941 10 0.000004104 10 -100%
1942 14 0.000005125 14 -100%
1944 15 0.000005576 15 -100%
1945 14 0.000005277 14 -100%
1946 11 0.000003443 11 -100%
1947 17 0.000004719 17 -100%
1948 15 0.000004345 15 -100%
1949 21 0.000006026 21 -100%
1950 15 0.000004282 15 -100%
1951 13 0.000003529 13 -100%
1952 22 0.000005793 22 -100%
1953 14 0.000003633 14 -100%
1954 28 0.000007034 28 -100%
1955 32 0.00000797 32 -100%
1956 31 0.000007519 31 -100%
1957 22 0.000005235 22 -100%
1958 17 0.000004112 17 -100%
1959 34 0.000008177 34 -100%
1960 43 0.000010352 43 -100%
1961 28 0.00000676 28 -100%
1962 45 0.000011151 45 -100%
1963 34 0.00000859 34 -100%
1964 37 0.000009517 37 -100%
1965 44 0.000012136 44 -100%
1966 30 0.000008631 30 -100%
1967 37 0.000010899 37 -100%
1968 35 0.00001036 35 -100%
1969 45 0.000012948 45 -100%
1970 54 0.000014973 54 -100%
1971 60 0.000017481 60 -100%
1972 67 0.000021317 67 -100%
1973 88 0.000029169 88 -100%
1974 66 0.000021711 66 -100%
1975 86 0.000028483 86 -100%
1976 102 0.000033616 5 97 -90%
1977 95 0.000029907 95 -100%
1978 105 0.000033083 105 -100%
1979 96 0.000028855 96 -100%
1980 113 0.000032806 5 108 -91%
1981 113 0.000032665 113 -100%
1982 118 0.000033638 118 -100%
1983 151 0.0000436 6 145 -92%
1984 157 0.000045002 157 -100%
1985 191 0.000053515 191 -100%
1986 217 0.000061005 7 210 -94%
1987 223 0.000061848 5 218 -96%
1988 234 0.000063328 234 -100%
1989 320 0.000083237 320 -100%
1990 351 0.000088805 5 346 -97%
1991 323 0.000082921 323 -100%
1992 301 0.000078359 301 -100%
1993 313 0.000083018 313 -100%
1994 280 0.000075316 280 -100%
1995 235 0.00006417 235 -100%
1996 209 0.000057304 209 -100%
1997 213 0.000058746 213 -100%
1998 209 0.000056821 209 -100%
1999 240 0.000064973 240 -100%
2000 230 0.000060848 230 -100%
2001 205 0.000054763 205 -100%
2002 163 0.000043603 163 -100%
2003 195 0.000051284 195 -100%
2004 185 0.000048418 185 -100%
2005 223 0.000058 223 -100%
2006 200 0.000050554 200 -100%
2007 205 0.00005128 205 -100%
2008 200 0.000050882 200 -100%
2009 227 0.000059421 227 -100%
2010 214 0.000057905 214 -100%
2011 195 0.000053311 195 -100%
2012 195 0.000053317 195 -100%
2013 229 0.000062814 229 -100%
2014 195 0.000052612 195 -100%
2015 192 0.000051879 192 -100%
2016 162 0.000044157 162 -100%
2017 176 0.000049214 176 -100%
2018 149 0.000042379 149 -100%
2019 147 0.000042352 147 -100%
2020 124 0.000037119 124 -100%
2021 144 0.000042504 144 -100%
2022 104 0.000030741 104 -100%
2023 84 0.000025368 84 -100%
2024 77 0.000023134 77 -100%

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