Cortlandt as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Cortlandt

What is the meaning of the name Cortlandt ?

The baby name Cortlandt is a Male name , 2 syllables long and is pronounced KORT-lənd (IPA: /ˈkɔrtlənt/).

Cortlandt is English in Origin.

Cortlandt is a Dutch-derived surname and place name that became a given name in America, closely associated with the prominent Van Cortlandt family of colonial New York. The family name goes back to Middle Dutch kort "short" + land "land," likely denoting a small tract or narrow strip of farmland, a sense echoed in Dutch toponyms like Kortland/Kortlandt. As a first or middle name, Cortlandt appears in 18th- and 19th-century records, especially in New York, often chosen to honor kinship or political ties; it survives in American place names such as Cortlandt Street and the town of Cortlandt.

Variants include Cortland (the most common modern form), Courtland and Courtlandt (Anglicized spellings), and Dutch forms Kortland/Kortlandt; Cort works as a casual short form. Usage today is rare but distinctive, reading as patrician and historical. The underlying meaning evokes a "small estate" or "short strip of land."