Corydon as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Corydon

What is the meaning of the name Corydon ?

The baby name Corydon is a Male name , 3 syllables long and is pronounced KOR-i-dən (IPA: /ˈkɒrɪdən/ or US /ˈkɔːrɪdən/).

Corydon is in Origin.

Corydon is the Latinized form of Greek Korydon (Κορύδων), commonly interpreted as “lark,” likely related to Greek terms for the songbird. The name entered literary currency through Hellenistic and Roman pastoral poetry: a goatherd Corydon appears in Theocritus, and Virgil’s Eclogues II features the shepherd Corydon in a celebrated love lament, fixing the name’s bucolic, musical, and romantic connotations.

Carried by Renaissance and Baroque pastorals, madrigals, and operas, Corydon (and its variant Coridon) became a stock shepherd’s name across Europe. It saw modest use as a given name in the English-speaking world from the 17th to 19th centuries - especially in the United States - before fading to rarity. Variants and related forms include Coridon (French/Italian/Spanish), Coridón (Spanish accenting), and the transliteration Korydon; informal short forms may be Cory or Don. Literary afterlives include André Gide’s essay-dialogues “Corydon,” which revived the Virgilian association.