Courtney

English

Alternative forms

• (surname): Cotney
• Kourtney

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):

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Proper noun

Courtney (countable and uncountable, plural Courtneys)

1. 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[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iv]:

     Sir Edward Courtney, and the haughty prelate,
     Bishop of Exeter, his brother there,
     With many moe confederates are in arms.

2. A male given name transferred from the surname.
3. 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.

4. A place in the United States:
   1. An unincorporated community in Jackson County, Missouri.
   2. An unincorporated community in South Liberty Township, Yadkin County, North Carolina.
   3. A village in Union Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania.

Translations

surname

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 考特尼 (Kǎotèní)

female given nave

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 考特妮 (Kǎotèní)

male given name

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 考特尼 (Kǎotèní)

Anagrams

• countrey