The Cortes Surname
Cortes Name Meaning and History
- Spanish (Cortés), Catalan (Cortès), and Portuguese (Cortês): from cortés ‘courteous’, ‘polite’, a derivative of corte (see Corte), a nickname for a refined person, sometimes no doubt given ironically.
- Spanish and Portuguese (Cortes): habitational name from any of numerous places in Spain and Portugal named with cortes, plural of corte ‘court’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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