Courtney

plural Courtneys · alternative Cotney · alternative Kourtney · alternative Courteney

1. countableuncountableA surname from Old French.

   Sir Edward Courtney, and the haughty prelate, Bishop of Exeter, his brother there, With many moe confederates are in arms.

   c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iv]

2. countableuncountableA male given name transferred from the surname.
3. countableuncountableA female given name transferred from the surname, popular in the 1980s and the 1990s.

   "One girl ten, another one eight. Courtney and Ashley. I'd have named 'em something else. Sara and Diane, Patti and Jill, something like that. I don't even understand girls.

   1985, Sue Grafton, B is for Burglar, Macmillan, published 2005, →ISBN, page 125

4. A place in the United States:
   1. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Jackson County, Missouri.
   2. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in South Liberty Township, Yadkin County, North Carolina.
   3. countableuncountableA village in Union Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania.