Clea

given name · Portuguese · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Clea is a given name, with more bearers in France than in any other country. It appears chiefly in Portuguese and French, written in the Latin script.

rarermore common
  • BRBrazil1 in 33K◐
  • PHPhilippines1 in 107K
  • USUnited States1 in 495K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈18K ●

across 11 countries

Sources
183 ●

14K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 6.2K ◐

France

Spellings & scripts●

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

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

Sources 2

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Clea is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FR France10,920△5 rec.1 in 6.2K11K—4
BR Brazil6,3554.8K rec.1 in 33K7.9KClea100
PH Philippines1,558737 rec.——Clea30
AU Australia691624 rec.—1Clea75
US United States6726.4K rec.1 in 495K672Clea183
GB United Kingdom435371 rec.—3Clea72
BE Belgium40926 rec.—13Clea9
CA Canada353141 rec.—1Clea44
AT Austria33412 rec.—100Clea9
DE Germany326218 rec.—1Clea48
AR Argentina160123 rec.—3Clea17
IT Italy116107 rec.—14Clea14

Roughly 11K people in France bear this name (about 1 in 6.2K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Portuguese126K70%
  • French36K20%
  • English13K7%
  • Spanish1.5K1%
  • German8331%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Portuguese125,81470%
French35,56220%
English13,3297%
Spanish1,4871%
German8331%

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◐

Clea is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate given name339 records spelled Clea2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Switzerland

    Also written Cléa

  • Danish given name270 records spelled Clea7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark, Norway, United States, Sweden

    Languages: Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Swedish

    Also written Cléa, Cleã

  • Swahili given name194 records spelled Clea3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Kenya, United States, Philippines, Tanzania

    Also written Cléa

  • Indonesian given name149 records spelled Clea4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Philippines, United States

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Cléa

  • Finnish given name128 records spelled Clea4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland

    Also written Cléa

  • Croatian given name102 records spelled Clea6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia

    Also written Cléa

48 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●

Clea is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In ang, claw, nail

    as a wordkaikki.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●

010203019201940196019802000202026 · 2022

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Clea in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1914–2025
Yearrecords
19146
19158
19167
19187
19197
19207
19217
19248
192511
19267
192710
19296
19316
19325
19337
19369
19375
19386
19446
19476
19495
19516
19535
19595
19617
19628
196313
19648
196513
19687
196912
19718
19729
19759
19768
19776
197811
19796
19807
19819
198212
19836
198410
19858
19877
19889
19896
199012
19917
19936
19947
19967
199710
199814
199913
200016
200113
200217
200313
200414
200510
200618
200710
200810
200912
201010
201113
201210
201314
201414
201512
201611
201715
201816
201913
202012
202118
202226
202322
202424
202520

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 81 years between 1914–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

190019201940196019802000Clea Badaro, b. 1913Cléa Simões, b. 1927Clea Lewis, b. 1965Clea de Koning, b. 1969Clea Koff, b. 1972Clea DuVall, b. 1977Clea Smith, b. 1979Clea Hoyte, b. 1981Clea Shearer, b. 1982

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●

Attested in 55 sources across 29 countries.

Official registers attesting Clea
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—7.9K#2,494
BR BrazilBrasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)—7.9K#1,079
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)20226.4K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—6.3K#2,317
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)2023770#2,630
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020672#15,903
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020204#95,802
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000197#87,729
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010195#93,921
AT AustriaStatistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024)2024100#504
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—97#16,177
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—77#8,630

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 293 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Clea?
We estimate roughly 18 thousand people bear Clea (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
In which country does Clea have the most bearers?
We estimate about 11 thousand people bear Clea in France, more than in any other country in our records.
Where is Clea most common?
Clea is densest in France, where the national register counts about 1 in 6.2 thousand people carrying it.
Is Clea a male or female name?
Clea 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.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Clea”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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