Family name origins & meanings
- English : habitational name from a place in Gloucestershire named Corse, from Welsh cors ‘marsh’, ‘bog’.
- Scottish : topographic name from northern Middle English cors, corse ‘cross’, or a habitational name for someone from any of various places, for example in Grampian and Orkney, named with this word.
- Danish or Dutch : from the personal name Corsse, a variant of Carsten, which was borne by Scandinavian settlers in New Netherland in the 17th century.