The Correa surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 38,232 people carried this name — #905 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 7,720 people counted. That is up 32% from 28,910 in 2000.
Where the name comes from
The origin of the Correa surname
From Spanish, from correa.
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Correa» (English), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In Argentina’s national register
At least 94,330 people named Correa live in Argentina.
RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Buenos Aires Province.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
392 people named Correa live in Switzerland.
They live in 14 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Geneva.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 258 people named Correa.
Most of them — 181 — were born outside France. Those born in France came from 17 départements, most often Hauts-de-Seine.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In the Nordic population registers
75 people named Correa is counted in Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown).
In print
Correa in American newspapers,
1920–1922.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 34,768 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Correa,
with a public archive behind them.
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Francisco Correa de Araujo 1584–1654 · composer -
Duberney Correa Figueroa d. 2007
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Alfonso Correa 1301–1398 · Catholic priest
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Tommaso Correa 1536–1595 · poet
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Manuel Correa 1600–1667 · sculptor
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Juan Correa 1646–1716 · painter
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Correa.
- Corradini 289 · U.S. census
- Corrado 4,021 · U.S. census
- Corral 16,808 · U.S. census
- Corrales 11,348 · U.S. census
- Corrao 1,451 · U.S. census
- Corre 140 · U.S. census
- Correia 10,126 · U.S. census
- Corrier 116 · U.S. census
- Corrieri 244 · U.S. census
- Corrion 164 · U.S. census
- Corron 500 · U.S. census
- Cors 179 · U.S. census
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