Korte Family History
Korte Name Meaning
Dutch (mainly De Korte) and North German: nickname for a short person from Middle Dutch Middle Low German kort ‘short’. German (Körte): from a Westphalian variant of the personal name Kurt . East German: from a Germanized form of Upper Sorbian khort ‘greyhound’ hence possibly a nickname for someone resembling the animal in some way or for someone who kept hunting dogs. Hungarian (Körte): from körte ‘pear’ a metonymic occupational name for a grower or seller of the fruit.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022