Courson Family History
Courson Name Meaning
Americanized form of Coursen a surname of Breton (see 3 below) or perhaps French (see 2 below) or Dutch origin. Compare Corson French: habitational name from either of two places called Courson in Calvados and Essonne named with the Latin personal name Curtius (a derivative of curtus ‘short’) + the locative suffix -onem or from Courson in Yonne named with the same personal name + Gaulish dunum ‘fortress stronghold’. Breton (Côtes-d'Armor): variant of Corson
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022