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court Name Meaning and History

  1. English and French: topographic name from Middle English, Old French court(e), curt ‘court’ (Latin cohors, genitive cohortis, ‘yard’, ‘enclosure’). This word was used primarily with reference to the residence of the lord of a manor, and the surname is usually an occupational name for someone employed at a manorial court.
  2. English: nickname from Old French, Middle English curt ‘short’, ‘small’ (Latin curtus ‘curtailed’, ‘truncated’, ‘cut short’, ‘broken off’).
  3. Irish: reduced form of McCourt.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of court Families in the US in 1920
Number of court families
 36-69
 13-35		 1-12
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