Given name & surname · also Spanish
Cortazar
Cortazar is a surname from Spanish, ultimately from Basque.
Original SpanishCortázar
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Cortazar comes from Spanish, and ultimately from Basque.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In English usage, Cortazar as a surname developed from Kortazar.
Cortazar’s family of names
In English usage, Cortazar as a surname developed from the Basque form Kortazar. In English usage, Cortazar as a surname was borrowed from the Spanish form Cortázar.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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