Type Surname (from nickname)
Usage English
Meaning & History
Nickname from Old French 'corson', a diminutive of curt ‘short’
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Meaning & History
From the given name of Cors Pieters, a sailor with the Dutch West Indies Company, who arrived in the Dutch Colony, New Amsterdam (present day New York), on or before 1638. Cors' children were patronymically named, "Cors'sons" (or in Dutch, "Corssen"). Cors is considered a full name, and not a reduction or nickname, and is a form of Christian.