Corea
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: Korea (two countries of East Asia, North Korea and South Korea; the peninsula containing these two countries)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/koɾea/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Corea is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Honduras than in any other country, where it is the 88th most common surname.
- NINicaragua≈1 in 520(inferred from the name graph)
- HNHonduras≈1 in 692
- CRCosta Rica1 in 1.2K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Corea itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Honduras (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 181 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 520 (inferred from the name graph)
≈13,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Nicaragua, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Coreia in BR Brazil.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Korea (two countries of East Asia, North Korea and South Korea; the peninsula containing these two countries)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
How Corea is read(measured from records)
Corea is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish76%
Korea (two countries of East Asia, North Korea and South Korea; the peninsula containing these two countries)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English18%
Archaic spelling of Korea.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Chick, jazz musician
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Corea counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HN Honduras | #88 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 692 | — | Corea | 41 |
| NI Nicaragua | #72 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 520 | — | Corea | 37 |
| BR Brazil | — | 11,303as Coreia | 1 in 19K | 11K | Coreia | 38 |
| CR Costa Rica | #177 | 4,244 | 1 in 1.2K | 4.2K | Corea | 44 |
| US United States | — | 3,176 | 1 in 105K | 3.3K | Corea | 181 |
| SV El Salvador | #388 | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 4.9K | — | Corea | 23 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | — | 29 | 1 in 3.5K | 29 | — | — |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Victor Coreab. 1871LKSri Lankan politician (1871-1962)
- Vernon Coreab. 1927LKThe legendary broadcaster – a pioneer with Radio Ceylon/Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation and the BBC. (1927–2002)
- Chick Coreab. 1941USAmerican jazz and fusion pianist, keyboardist, and composer (1941-2021)
- Nicholas J. Coreab. 1943USRecipient of the Purple Heart medal (1943-1999)
- Gayle Moranb. 1943USnot in their usual nameAmerican vocalist, keyboardist and songwriter
- Walter Centenob. 1974CRnot in their usual nameCosta Rican footballer (born 1974)
- Dustin Coreab. 1992USSalvadorian soccer player
- Rodrigo Coreaactor
- Carlo CoreaMXMexican screenwriter
- Annamaria CoreaITItalian dance historian
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 26 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 4.2K | #270 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 3.8K | #2,825 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.3K | #9,521 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.2K | #10,159 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.4K | #11,928 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025) | 2025 | 29 | #233 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — Consulta de nombres (Padrón Nacional Electoral name enumeration) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Corea mean, and where does it come from?
- Korea (two countries of East Asia, North Korea and South Korea; the peninsula containing these two countries) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Corea?
- A machine transcription gives /koɾea/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Corea have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 13 thousand people named Corea in Honduras, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled corea.
- How common is the name Corea?
- In Costa Rica, the national register counted 4,244 people named Corea, about 1 in 1.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Corea compared with other names?
- In Honduras, Corea is the 88th most common surname of 30,461 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/coreaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Corea” — the 88th most common surname in Honduras. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.