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Last name origins & meanings:

  1. Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese: from corte ‘court’ (Latin cohors ‘yard’, ‘enclosure’, genitive cohortis), applied as an occupational name for someone who worked at a manorial court or a topographic name for someone who lived in or by one.
  2. English: variant spelling of Court.
  3. Americanized spelling of Korte.