Courtney Family History
Courtney Name Meaning
English and Irish (of Norman origin): habitational name from Courtenay near Sens in northern France or some other place similarly named from the name of a Gallo-Roman landlord Curtenus (a derivative of Latin curtus ‘short’) + the locative suffix -acum. Irish: English surname adopted for Ó Curnáin ‘descendant of Curnán’ an Old Irish personal name based on a diminutive of corn ‘horn’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022