Coronel
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/koɾonel/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Coronel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country, where it is the 72nd most common surname. Recorded meaning: Probably from Middle French colonel, from Italian colonnello, or alternatively from Old Occitan coronel, from a diminutive of Latin columna, becoming influenced by corona.
- PYParaguay≈1 in 249(inferred from the name graph)
- ARArgentina1 in 454
- ECEcuador1 in 699
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Argentina (measured from records)
- Sources
- 298 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 249 (inferred from the name graph)
100,252 people
Highest-authority source
Paraguay, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- Middle Frenchcolonel(measured from records)
- Italiancolonnello(measured from records)
- Old Occitancoronel(measured from records)
Probably from Middle French colonel, from Italian colonnello, or alternatively from Old Occitan coronel, from a diminutive of Latin columna, becoming influenced by corona.
Sources 2
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
- Wiktionary
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Coronel 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | #72 | 100,252 | 1 in 454 | 100K | Coronel | 124 |
| PY Paraguay | #52 | ≈29,000 est. | ≈1 in 249 | — | Coronel | 57 |
| EC Ecuador | #145 | 24,174 | 1 in 699 | 24K | Coronel | 76 |
| PH Philippines | #630 | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 5K | — | Coronel | 90 |
| PE Peru | #269 | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | Coronel | 80 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 3,532 | 1 in 959 | 3.5K | — | 41 |
100,252 people counted by RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INEC — civil registry names; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Coronel is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Portuguese, colonel (commissioned office in the armed services)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Mary of Jesus of Ágredab. 1602ESnot in their usual nameSpanish mystic nun
- Leo Danb. 1942ARnot in their usual nameArgentine composer and singer (1942–2026)
- Hilda Koronelb. 1957PHnot in their usual nameFilipino actress
- Tom Coronelb. 1972NLDutch racing driver
- Immortal Techniqueb. 1978PEnot in their usual nameAmerican rapper
- Mariela Coronelb. 1981ARArgentinian footballer
- Emma Coronel Aispurob. 1989USAmerican model (born 1989)
- Bruno Coronelb. 1992MXMexican voice actor
- Inés Remersarob. 1992UYnot in their usual nameswimmer
- Carlos Miguel Coronelb. 1996BRBrazilian-Paraguayan footballer
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 32 sources across 21 countries.
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Coronel mean, and where does it come from?
- Probably from Middle French colonel, from Italian colonnello, or alternatively from Old Occitan coronel, from a diminutive of Latin columna, becoming influenced by corona. Recorded by 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples) and Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Coronel?
- A machine transcription gives /koɾonel/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Coronel have the most bearers?
- In Argentina, the national register counted about 100 thousand people named Coronel, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled coronel.
- How common is the name Coronel?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 100,252 people named Coronel, about 1 in 454 residents.
- How common is Coronel compared with other names?
- In Argentina, Coronel is the 72nd most common surname of 398,256 surnames recorded there.
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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, “Coronel” — the 72nd most common surname in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.