Correa surname meaning

Correa is a Spanish surname from correa, “leather strap,” “belt,” “rein,” or “shoelace,” from Latin corrigia, “fastening.” DAFN treats it as a metonymic occupational name for someone who made or sold such leather articles. Portuguese and Galician Correia is the closely related Iberian spelling. Sephardic families also adopted Correa at conversion and some later retained it. Legendary noble origin stories are not needed for the word’s trade sense. Occupation is high confidence for the leather-goods lead that dictionary sources put first.