Around the world, Korten (科迪 
, 科滕 , Korten 
) is quite a rare largely male, but infrequently female given name. The forename Korten is characteristic of China, where it is a rare mostly male, but uncommonly female name, and India, where it is an extremely rare boy's name. Also, Korten is the last name as well as the forename.
Korten is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Risk , the comic book character, Action Comics; Cody , the character from Disney's The Rescuers Down Under; Commander Cody , the Star Wars character, Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith; Cody Martin , the fictional human in The Suite Life of Zack and Cody, The Suite Life on Deck and Cody Jones , the fictional Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles character, among other works.