Corte Family History
Corte Name Meaning
Italian Spanish and Portuguese: from corte ‘court’ (from Latin cohors cors genitive cohortis cortis ‘court farmyard enclosure’) applied as an occupational name for someone who worked at a manorial court or as a topographic name for someone who lived in or by one. Compare Italian La Corte . English: variant of Court . Americanized form of German Körte or Korte .
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022