Alea

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Alea is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Spanish given name6.7K records spelled Alea13 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Philippines, United States, Brazil, Spain

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

  Also written Álea, Aléa, Alêå, Älëä, Áléå

• a separate given name666 records spelled Alea2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, India

  Also written Aléa

• Bangla given name548 records spelled Alea3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, Bangladesh, United Kingdom, United States

  Also written Aléa

55 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Alea is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Romanian, nominative/accusative feminine/neuter plural of ăla: those

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Finnish, partitive singular of ale

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Latin, a die

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Italian, risk

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 59 years between 1961–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Alea Räberb. 1993CHSwiss association football player
• Alea Rögerb. 1997DEGerman association football player
• Alea O'Sheab. 2000AUAustralian actress

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 315 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Alea?

We estimate roughly 5.6 thousand people bear Alea (counting its spellings and scripts) across 14 countries in our records.

In which country does Alea have the most bearers?

We estimate about 3.7 thousand people bear Alea in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled alea.

Where is Alea most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Alea is densest in Albania — about 1 in 4.5 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.

How common is Alea compared with other names?

In Switzerland, Alea is the 825th most common given name of 33,890 given names recorded there.

Is Alea a male or female name?

Alea is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.