Kortney
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- [ KORT-nee ]
- English (Modern)
Variant of COURTNEY.
 | COURTNEY female & male English From an aristocratic English surname which was derived either from the French place name Courtenay (originally a derivative of the personal name Curtenus, itself derived from Latin curtus "short") or else from a Norman nickname meaning "short nose". As a feminine name in America, it first became popular during the 1970s. | |||||||||||||||||||