Cortney as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Cortney

What is the meaning of the name Cortney ?

The baby name Cortney is a Unisex name , 2 syllables long and is pronounced /ˈkɔːrtni/ (KORT-nee).

Cortney is English in Origin.

Cortney is a modern respelling of Courtney, an English unisex given name that began as the Norman-French surname de Courtenay. The surname comes from the French place Courtenay (Loiret), ultimately linked to the Gallo-Roman personal name Curtenus from Latin curtus “short.” A long-standing folk etymology gives the meaning “short nose” (Old French court nez), but most sources prefer “from Courtenay.”

As a given name, Courtney/Cortney spread from England via the Norman aristocratic Courtenay family and shifted from surname to first name by the 17th–19th centuries. In the United States it rose sharply in the 1970s–1990s, used for both sexes but trending female. Cortney, the u-less variant, peaked in that era and is rarer now. Related forms include Courtney, Courteney, Kourtney, Kortney, Cortnee, and the short forms Court and Cort.