Coronel Family History
Coronel Name Meaning
Spanish and Portuguese: from coronel ‘colonel’ a loanword from Italian colonnello a diminutive of colonna ‘column (of troops)’ (from Latin columna) hence a metonymic occupational name for someone in command of a regiment. Because of the late documentation of this word it is alternatively possible to explain this name as a variant of the personal name Cornelio .
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022