Corona surname meaning
A Spanish and Italian surname from corona, “crown,” used as a house-sign place-name, a nickname for tonsure or power, or from the female personal name Corona.
Confidence: Disputed. More than one origin is plausible, or sources disagree. We show the conflict rather than pick a cute answer.
The short story
Corona is a Spanish and Italian surname from Latin corona, “garland,” “chaplet,” or “crown.” Dictionary treatments give several routes that share the same word: a topographic or habitational name for someone at a house marked with a crown sign; a nickname for a person with a clerical tonsure or for someone thought to hold influence; and, in Italy, the female personal name Corona. Korona and Carona appear as related spellings. Nickname fits the crown/tonsure/power reading common in U.S. Hispanic and Italian lines, but the house-sign and personal-name streams keep confidence disputed.
Also seen as: Corona, Korona, de Corona, Carona
- Ancestry / DAFN entry for Corona (Spanish/Italian corona “crown”; house sign; tonsure/power nickname; Italian female Corona)
- Geneanet / DAFN synthesis for Corona
- Names2020_LastNames_RaceHispanic_Top1000.xlsx (2020 Census)