Courtney
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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Variant of Courtenay, an aristocratic Norman surname derived from place names in Normandy, from Latin Curtenus, a personal name from curtus (“short”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkɔː(ɹ)tni/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Proper noun
Courtney (countable and uncountable, plural Courtneys)
- A surname from Old French.
- c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: ”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :
- Sir Edward Courtney, and the haughty prelate,
Bishop of Exeter, his brother there,
With many moe confederates are in arms.
- A male given name transferred from the surname.
- A female given name transferred from the surname, popular in the 1980s and the 1990s.
- 1985, Sue Grafton, B is for Burglar, Macmillan, published 2005, →ISBN, page 125:
- "One girl ten, another one eight. Courtney and Ashley. I'd have named 'em something else. Sara and Diane, Patti and Jill, something like that. I don't even understand girls.
- A place in the United States:
- An unincorporated community in Jackson County, Missouri.
- An unincorporated community in South Liberty Township, Yadkin County, North Carolina.
- A village in Union Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania.
Translations
surname
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male given name
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