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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese : from corte ‘court’ (Latin cohors ‘yard’, ‘enclosure’, genitive cohortis), applied as an occupational name for someone who worked at a manorial court or a topographic name for someone who lived in or by one.
  • English : variant spelling of Court.
  • Americanized spelling of Korte.

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