Last name: COURTNEY
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COURTNEY : This last name is indexed 79,142 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
COURTNEY : 1: 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.2: Irish: English surname adopted for Ó Curnáin ‘descendant of Curnán’ an Old Irish personal name based on a diminutive of corn ‘horn’.
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