as a Last Name
- 10,597
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Correia
Meaning & Origins
Portuguese: from correia ‘leather strap’, ‘belt’, ‘rein’, ‘shoelace’ (Latin corrigia ‘fastening’, from corrigere ‘to straighten’, ‘to correct’), applied as a metonymic occupational name for a maker or seller of such articles.
| 3,403rd in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 10,597
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Rhode Island
- has the most people named Correia per capita
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