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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : possibly an occupational name for a curer of leather, from cuir ‘leather’, but le ‘the’ is normal with occupational names, not de ‘from’.
  • French : more probably, a habitational name from an unidentified place called Cuir or a variant of De Court (see Court).

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