Ortiz
surname · Latin script
Meaning: ‘Son of Orti’, a Basque personal name derived from Latin Fortunius (Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history])
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 27 countries · latest register: INEC, 2024
/oɾˈtis/(recorded in a dictionary) Spanish · from Wiktionary
Ortiz is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mexico than in any other country, where it is the 27th most common surname. Ortiz is also written Ортис in Cyrillic, ออร์ทิซ in Thai and Ορτίζ in Greek.
- PRPuerto Rico≈1 in 67(inferred from the name graph)
- PYParaguay≈1 in 110
- COColombia≈1 in 150
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Ortiz itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Mexico (inferred from the name graph)
- #126 (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 525 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 67 (inferred from the name graph)
≈700,000 people, est.
of 19M surnames, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Puerto Rico, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Ortiz in other scripts: Cyrillic, Thai and Greek
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
How to pronounce Ortiz
- Spanish:/oɾˈtis/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
- English:/ɔɹˈtis/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)‘Son of Orti’, a Basque personal name derived from Latin Fortunius.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Ortiz is found
(measured from records)Ortiz counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MX Mexico | #27 | ≈700,000 est. | ≈1 in 187 | 13K | Ortiz | 271 |
| CO Colombia | #18 | ≈340,000 est. | ≈1 in 154 | 169 | Ortiz | 228 |
| US United States | #72 | 286,899 | 1 in 1.2K | 288K | Ortiz | 525 |
| AR Argentina | #31 | 156,020 | 1 in 291 | 156K | Ortiz | 166 |
| ES Spain | #30 | 114,447 | 1 in 437 | 114K | Ortiz | 251 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 91,630 | 1 in 184 | 92K | Ortiz | 107 |
| PY Paraguay | #14 | ≈66,000 est. | ≈1 in 105 | — | Ortiz | 82 |
| PR Puerto Rico | #11 | ≈48,000 est. | ≈1 in 67 | — | Ortiz | 132 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); the co-datosgov-candidates register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INEC — civil registry names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Ana Ortizb. 1971USactress
- Leonor, Princess of Asturiasb. 2005ESnot in their usual name38th princess of Asturias and heiress to the Spanish throne
- Infanta Sofía of Spainb. 2007ESnot in their usual nameyounger child of King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)52 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 27 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ortiz mean, and where does it come from?
- ‘Son of Orti’, a Basque personal name derived from Latin Fortunius. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Ortiz?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /oɾˈtis/ (Wiktionary); in English /ɔɹˈtis/ (Wiktionary).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Ortiz?
- Mondonomo estimates about 701 thousand people named Ortiz in Mexico, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ortiz. After it come Colombia, United States, Argentina and Spain; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Ortiz?
- In the United States, the national register counted 286,899 people named Ortiz in 2010, about 1 in 1.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Ortiz compared with other names?
- In Mexico, Ortiz is the 27th most common surname of 206,803 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Ortiz?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ortizThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ortiz” — ranked 24th in Mexico (RENAPO). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.