Dea

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Დეა in GE Georgia.

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●

Attested in 1 language 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◐

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

• Portuguese given name36K records spelled Dea12 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Mexico, Philippines

  Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

  Also written Déa, De-A, Deá, Dëä, Dêa

• Indonesian given name34K records spelled Dea5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Indonesia, Malaysia, United States, Philippines

  Also written 'Dea, De'A, Dea', Déa

• Albanian given name7.8K records spelled Dea2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Albania, Italy, United States, Kosovo

  Also written Déa

• Croatian given name5.0K records spelled Dea11 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Croatia, North Macedonia, United States, Bulgaria

  Languages: Croatian, Macedonian, Bulgarian

  Also written Деа, Déa, Deã

• a separate given name4.6K records spelled Dea2 spellings in the group

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

  Also written Déa

• Danish given name2.3K records spelled Dea5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Denmark, Norway, United States

  Languages: Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian

  Also written Déa

58 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●

Dea is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Italian, redução popular de Taddea

  as a name·Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

• In German, short form of DEGEN

  as a name·Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

• In German, weibl. Vom., schwedische Kurzform von

  as a name·DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

• Diosa

  as a name·25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

• In mch, alternative form of de'a (“still, again, at the same time or place”)

  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) — 105 years between 1901–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Déa Selvab. 1917BRBrazilian actress
• Circe Maiab. 1932UYnot in their usual nameUruguayan writer, poet, teacher, and translator
• Déa Lúciab. 1947BRactress
• Dea Birkettb. 1958GBBritish writer
• Dea Loherb. 1964DEGerman playwright and author (born 1964)
• Dea Viseb. 1967USactress
• Merete Dea Larsenb. 1978DKDanish politician and consultant
• Dea Klein-Šumanovacb. 1981HRCroatian basketball player (born 1981)
• Maretha Dea Giovanib. 1994IDIndonesian badminton player
• Dea Herdželašb. 1996BABosnian female tennis player

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 · 456 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Dea?

We estimate roughly 9.4 thousand people bear Dea (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.

In which country does Dea have the most bearers?

We estimate about 2.5 thousand people bear Dea in Georgia, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled დეა.

Where is Dea most common?

Dea is densest in Georgia, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.6 thousand people carrying it.

How common is Dea compared with other names?

In Georgia, Dea is the 518th most common given name of 34,237 given names recorded there.

Is Dea a male or female name?

Dea 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.

What does the name Dea mean?

Recorded meaning: Initialism of Drug Enforcement Administration.