Courson Family History

Americanized form of Coursen a surname of Breton (see 3 below) or perhaps French (see 2 below) or Dutch origin. Compare Corson French: habitational name from either of two places called Courson in Calvados and Essonne named with the Latin personal name Curtius (a derivative of curtus ‘short’) + the locative suffix -onem.

Alternatively, it could originate from Courson in Yonne named with the same personal name + Gaulish dunum ‘fortress stronghold’.

Breton (Côtes-d'Armor): variant of Corson.