Corona

Family name origins & meanings

• Spanish and Italian : from Spanish, Italian corona ‘crown’ (Latin corona ‘garland’, ‘chaplet’, ‘diadem’), perhaps applied as a habitational name for someone who lived in a house with this sign, or as a nickname for someone who had a tonsure in fulfillment of a religious vow or who had influence and power.
• Italian : from the female personal name Corona, of the same derivation as 1.