The name comes from the Slavic/Early Slovakkoryto (manger) with the suffix -ťany used to derive place names referring to people. Initially the name of the valley. 1280/1413 Koryth.
References
^ Varsik, Branislav (1977). Osídlenie košickej kotliny III (in Slovak). Bratislava: Slovenská akadémia vied. p. 430.
