Korosec Family History
Korosec Name Meaning
Slovenian (Korošec): habitational name for someone from Carinthia (Slovenian Koroška) a duchy of the former Habsburg Empire since WWI almost entirely belonging to Austria. The territory of present-day Carinthia was the center of an early medieval Slovenian state known in Latin as Carantania the name from which the modern Slovenian name Koroška and its German cognate Kärnten developed. Compare Karner .
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022