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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English and Irish (of Norman origin; also written De Coursey) : habitational name for someone from any of various places in northern France called Courcy, from the Romano-Gallic personal name Curtius (a derivative of Latin curtus ‘short’; compare Court 2) + the locative suffix -acum.

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