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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Hungarian : nickname from German Kurtz ‘short’.
  • Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : from Polish, Ukrainian, Belorussian kurta ‘short overcoat’, applied as a metonymic occupational name for someone who made such garments or possibly a nickname for someone who habitually wore a coat of this kind.

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