Given name & surname · also Late Latin
Corona
“crown”·“a crowned woman”
Corona is used as a given name and a surname. Interpretations include “crown” (Late Latin) and “a crowned woman” (Spanish). These may reflect different naming traditions.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Interpretations include “crown” (Late Latin) and “a crowned woman” (Spanish). These may reflect different naming traditions.
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Late Latin.
How it developed
From Latin corōna (“crown”), from Spanish corona (“crown, wreath”), from Italian corona, from Italian Corona, from Late Latin Corōna, from Spanish La Corona (“The Crown”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1912. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Corona through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 98
- 0 boys · 98 girls
- Most popular year
- 1925
- 12 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 1980. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 12 in 1925. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 335 as a first name in 2020; 39,695 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Corona’s family of names
In English usage, Corona has a short form in Rona. Corona has a related form in Carona. Corona has a related form in Coronet.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 9
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Ronashort form · English
- Corronalikely variant
- Coronetavariant
- Coronetvariant
- Coronetevariant
- Caronavariant
- Coronettevariant
- Coronettavariant
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Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Corona
- Corona SchröterGerman musician and singer (1751-1802)
- Corona RintawanIndonesian emergency medicine physicianborn 1973
- CoronaChristian martyr160–177
- Corona RiccardoItalian actress (1878-1917)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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