"Form of Cortez"
The name Kortez is commonly a male name from the "Spanish" origin.
Kortez is a respelling of Cortez, a Spanish surname derived from the Spanish word cortes, meaning courteous or polite. The K spelling follows a common American pattern of swapping an initial C for K without changing the pronunciation, and it treats the surname as a given name for boys.
Cortez means "Courteous".
The pronunciation of Kortez is kor-TEZ.
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