I had a quick look at the number of "Corona"- themed teams, and after excluding all teams with "Coronation" in their name, I saw this beautiful exponential development:

Date Number
31/12/2003 1
31/12/2004 4
31/12/2005 5
31/12/2006 6
31/12/2007 7
31/12/2008 7
31/12/2009 8
31/12/2010 9
31/12/2011 9
31/12/2012 10
...
31/12/2019 10
31/01/2020 12
29/02/2020 14
15/03/2020 31

Let's see how it continues and how much predictive power it has with regards to the overall spread and development of the pandemic!.

It would also be interesting to look at naming trends in the context of other world-wide news (natural disasters such as hurricanes, previous viruses or US presidents; sports events; scientific discoveries etc).