The Fuertes surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 994 people carried this name — #25,003 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 294,100 people counted. That is up 39% from 714 in 2000.
In Argentina’s national register
At least 2,077 people named Fuertes live in Argentina.
RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Buenos Aires Province.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 152 people named Fuertes.
47 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 30 départements, most often Pyrénées-Atlantiques.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
40 people named Fuertes live in Switzerland.
They live in 6 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Geneva.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
Who carried it
People named Fuertes,
with a public archive behind them.
-
Mariano Soriano 1817–1880 · writer -
Estevan Antonio Fuertes 1838–1903 · engineer -
Louis Agassiz Fuertes 1874–1927 · zoologist -
Heriberto Fuertes Gómez d. 1948 · physician
-
James Hillhouse Fuertes 1863–1932 · engineer
-
Miguel Domingo Fuertes Loren 1871–1926 · botanist
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Fuertes.
- Frutos 1,390 · U.S. census
- Fry 38,029 · U.S. census
- Frydman 310 · U.S. census
- Fuchs 12,958 · U.S. census
- Fuente 629 · U.S. census
- Fuentes 81,006 · U.S. census
- Fuger 168 · U.S. census
- Fugere 806 · U.S. census
- Fuhrer 1,281 · U.S. census
- Fuhrmann 1,951 · U.S. census
- Fuhs 897 · U.S. census
- Fuks 274 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
This page says where Fuertes is.
A volume says what happened to it.
Every page in the index is free and stays free. The Heritage Volume is the long form: the full paper trail, the arms, the crossing — bound, and yours.