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Correas

Correas. Attested in Spain, France, United States of America, Argentina, Denmark, borne by about 7,201 people in the registers this map holds.

Only sounds alike

An algorithm's guess. Useful for casting a net, and not evidence.

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It is also the name of a place

This is as close to an origin as this map will go. A surname that is also a place name often came from it — and often did not: plenty are occupations or patronymics that happen to collide with a place, and plenty of places are named after a family rather than the other way round. It is a fact with a source, which is more than an etymology page offers.

  • Corres Germany only a phonetic neighbour, not a spelling

Where it is borne, and where a record names it

Attested in 5 countries: Spain, France, United States of America, Argentina, DenmarkArgentina — attested, not countedDenmark — attested, not countedUnited States of America — 110 peopleFrance — 255 peopleSpain — 6,836 people
A dot is a country, not a place. It sits at the country's centre because a national register counts a country; nothing here says where in it these people are. A hollow ring is attested but not counted — Denmark publishes which surnames exist and not how many carry each, and a family archive finds a name without counting heads. Sizing those by a number nobody published would invent it. Blank is not absence. This draws the 5 countries where the eleven registers and eight archives behind this atlas attest the name. Most of the world has no surname register this project can read, and the ones that do and will not are listed with the reason.

Country by country

Each country below can carry up to three different kinds of evidence, and none of them is the same claim. A register is a head-count — a state counted these people. A record is one document naming the surname on that ground, narrower evidence and often much older. And a volume overlapping these dates is a document from the right place and years — never a document known to name this surname. None of the three ever means the name exists in that country and nowhere else, or that it exists nowhere but here.

Spain

6,836 Borne — a state counted them — Frecuencia de apellidos, Censos de población (INE).

Whose archive to write to

6,287 of 35,936 volumes held for Spain overlap the 1570s, 1880s, 1950s, 1960s, 1990s and 2000s — the decades Correas is attested here. Too many to list, and this atlas does not know whether any one of them names Correas. The commonest kinds: Church and parish registers, Probate, land and notarial, Civil registration and vital records, Immigration and emigration. See everything this atlas holds for Spain →

France

255 Borne — a state counted them — Fichier des noms de famille 1891–2000 (INSEE, fichier national).

Whose archive to write to
Attested here, and nothing that survives covers those years

Correas is attested in France in the 1930s. Not one of the 1,513 volumes this atlas holds for France covers those years — worth knowing before an afternoon is spent on France's shelf rather than after.

United States of America

110 Borne — a state counted them — Frequently Occurring Surnames from the 2010 Census.

Whose archive to write to

This atlas has no birth-year evidence for Correas in United States of America, so it cannot narrow United States of America's 528,875 volumes by date — see United States of America's own page for all of it.

Argentina

Found in a record — Lerena.

Whose archive to write to

2,916 of 9,060 volumes held for Argentina overlap the 1770s, 1900s, 1930s and 1940s — the decades Correas is attested here. Too many to list, and this atlas does not know whether any one of them names Correas. The commonest kinds: Church and parish registers. See everything this atlas holds for Argentina →

Denmark

Borne — a state counted them — Navne registreret i Danmark, January 2020 (Danmarks Statistik, republished by Digitaliseringsstyrelsen).

Whose archive to write to

This atlas has no birth-year evidence for Correas in Denmark, so it cannot narrow Denmark's 4,099 volumes by date — see Denmark's own page for all of it.

When it was being born, in France

INSEE counts births by surname and decade from the état civil, 1891 to 2000 — the only dated evidence in this dataset. A name that starts at zero and climbs arrived; a name that falls to nothing left, died out, or emigrated, and the decade it stops is the decade to stop searching. It counts births registered in France, so a family that emigrated in 1900 simply stops appearing, which is information rather than a defect. This name's first French births fall in 1911–1920 and its last in 1991–2000.

  • 1891–1900 —
  • 1901–1910 —
  • 1911–1920 1
  • 1921–1930 4
  • 1931–1940 15
  • 1941–1950 19
  • 1951–1960 22
  • 1961–1970 69
  • 1971–1980 48
  • 1981–1990 36
  • 1991–2000 41

Whose archive held that ground, and when

Every surname site can tell you a name is common somewhere. This one also knows which filing system held that ground in which years — and those are the two halves of one question: my people were called this, they were there, so who has the paper, and for which century. A name in Croatia before 1881 may sit in a military series and not a county one; a name in the Netherlands before 1811 has no civil record at all, only a baptism.

This is about the ground, not about your family. A register counting a name in a country says nothing about which village. And these are the pieces of a country this atlas has drawn, which in a large one may be a corner of it — Acadia reaches into Maine and is not a statement about the United States, and Bohemia's ground crosses into Poland. Each region's own page says which ground it covers. Where a country is missing below, nothing covers it yet.

France
United States of America
Argentina
Denmark
  • Denmark 4 eras Denmark–Norway → Denmark, after the loss of Norway → Prussia, then the German Empire → Denmark

No record region is drawn yet for Spain — which is a gap in this atlas and not a statement about that country.

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