When Vicente Fernandes Correa was born in 1940, in Brazil, his father, Barnabé Cicero Correa, was 26 and his mother, Tertuliana Fernandes Correa, was 22. He died on 2 April 2005, at the age of 65.
Some characteristic forenames: Spanish Jose, Juan, Luis, Carlos, Manuel, Jorge, Pedro, Miguel, Jesus, Ramon, Raul, Francisco.
Spanish: from correa ‘leather strap, belt, rein, shoelace’ (from Latin corrigia ‘fastening’, from corrigere ‘to straighten, to correct’), applied as a metonymic occupational name for a maker or seller of such articles.
Jewish (Sephardic): adoption of the Spanish surname (see 1 above) at the moment of conversion to Roman Catholicism. After the return to Judaism (generations later), some descendants retained the name their families used as Catholics.
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