Given name & surname
Corrado
“a bold counselor”
Corrado is used as a given name and a surname. One German interpretation is “a bold counselor.”
Original GermanKonrad
Meaning & origin
What it means
One German interpretation is “a bold counselor.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is German.
How it developed
In Italian use, Corrado is used as a form of Conrad.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1913. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Corrado through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 323
- 323 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1973
- 14 babies
- 2025
- 8
- #9,079 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +100%
- Rising fast
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 8 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 9,079 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 14 in 1973. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 578 as a first name in 2020; 3,591 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.
Corrado’s family of names
In Italian usage, Corrado shares a linguistic root with the Catalan form Conrad. In Italian usage, Corrado has a conventional equivalent in the Polish form Konrad. Corrado has a related form in Conrad.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Corrado has relatives in 7 languages. Lines run from its German roots to each of them.
Germanwhere Corrado comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 5
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 7
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Corrado
- ConradinDuke of Swabia, King of Jerusalem and King of Sicily (1252–1268)
- Corrado GiniItalian statistician (1884–1965)
- Corrado AlvaroItalian journalist and writer of novels, short stories, screenplays, and plays (1895–1956)
- Corrado FabiItalian racing driverborn 1961
- Corrado LoreficeItalian prelateborn 1962
- Corrado SanguinetiItalian bishopborn 1964
- Corrado SegreItalian mathematician (1863-1924)
- Conrad, Count Palatine of the RhineFirst hereditary Count Palatine of the Rhine1134–1195
- Corrado BafileCatholic cardinal (1903–2005)
Characters named Corrado: Junior Soprano (The Sopranos).
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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