Morea

surname · English · Latin script

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

Morea is a surname, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Spanish and Catalan; habitational name from any of the places named Morea in Navarre, Lleida, or Badajoz provinces.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 430K◐
  • ESSpain1 in 37K
  • JMJamaica1 in 100K

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

≈3.8K ●

across 9 countries

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
159 ●

9.5K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 37K ◐

Spain

Spellings & scripts●

MoreaLatin · English●7.1K records
МореаCyrillic · Russian●14 records

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Moreda in ES Spain, IN India, NZ New Zealand and 2 more.

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●

Spanish and Catalan; habitational name from any of the places named Morea in Navarre, Lleida, or Badajoz provinces.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Morea is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ES Spain1,359△84 rec.1 in 37K1.4KMoreda23
BR Brazil1,288—1 in 164K1.3K——
US United States7737.8K rec.1 in 430K797Morea159
AR Argentina282△1 rec.1 in 161K282—2
GB United Kingdom242252 rec.——Morea18
CA Canada207214 rec.—1Morea16
IT Italy187182 rec.—5Morea23
AU Australia121170 rec.——Morea15
RU Russia8279 rec.——Morea12
DE Germany5060 rec.—1Morea20
JM Jamaica4851 rec.——Morea1
TR Türkiye4242 rec.——Morea2

Roughly 1.4K people in Spain bear this name (about 1 in 37K). 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●

  • English7.1K45%
  • Spanish4.9K31%
  • French6544%
  • Portuguese5153%
  • Italian5043%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English7,07245%
Spanish4,89331%
French6544%
Portuguese5153%
Italian5043%

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◐

Morea is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname6.4K records spelled Morea19 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, Argentina, United States, Brazil

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan

    Also written Moreda, Moreia, Mourede, Moréia, Moréa

  • French surname1.1K records spelled Morea14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Spain, Netherlands

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Mouri, Moree, Morée, Moréa, Moreé

  • a separate surname251 records spelled Morea2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, Italy

    Also written Moréa

  • Romanian surname182 records spelled Morea2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Romania, Italy, Spain

    Also written Moreea

  • a separate name95 records spelled Morea2 spellings in the group

    Also written Morese

38 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●

Morea 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 English, Synonym of Peloponnese, a peninsula in Greece, particularly (historical) under Turkish rule.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • Cespuglio di gelso

    as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…

  • unexplained.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

  • In Romanian, black nightshade (Solanum nigrum)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In mqs, a kind of freshwater eel

    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●

020406080199020002010202062 · 2023

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Morea in ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search), Kosovo, 1990–2025
Yearrecords
19901
19911
19931
19972
19984
20001
20014
20023
20033
20043
20052
20064
20079
20089
200920
201032
201138
201232
201346
201443
201537
201638
201748
201832
201950
202047
202153
202257
202362
202462
202553

XK ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) — 31 years between 1990–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

16001700180019002000Giambattista Morea, b. 1640Vitangelo Morea, b. 1782Domenico Morea, b. 1833Alfredo Morea, b. 1897Enrique Morea, b. 1924Ben Morea, b. 1941Francisco Antonio Morea, b. 1951Antonella Morea, b. 1956Dino Morea, b. 1975

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 41 sources across 23 countries.

Official registers attesting Morea
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020797#31,175
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000794#28,326
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010773#30,277
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)—730#900
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—305#11,885
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—305#11,873
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—253—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—73#79,953
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)202462—
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)202362—
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)202257—
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)202553—

Reference works 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary

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

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 133 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Morea?
We estimate roughly 3.8 thousand people bear Morea (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
In which country does Morea have the most bearers?
We estimate about 1.4 thousand people bear Morea in Spain, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled moreda.
Where is Morea most common?
Morea is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 37 thousand people carrying it.
What does the name Morea mean?
Recorded meaning: Spanish and Catalan; habitational name from any of the places named Morea in Navarre, Lleida, or Badajoz provinces.
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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, “Morea”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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