Moreia
surname · Portuguese · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Moreia is a surname, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country. It appears chiefly in Portuguese and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: moray (any eel of the family Muraenidae).
- ESSpain1 in 37K◐
- ARArgentina1 in 161K
- USUnited States1 in 430K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈3.8K ●
- Sources
- 89 ●
- 1 in 37K ◐
across 8 countries
8.6K records
Official registry-verified
Spain
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Moreda in ES Spain, AR Argentina, US United States and 7 more and Morea in CO Colombia, VE Venezuela, IT Italy and 5 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●
moray (any eel of the family Muraenidae)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | 1,359 | 1.7K rec. | 1 in 37K | 1.4K | Moreda | 87 |
| BR Brazil | 1,288△ | 297 rec. | 1 in 164K | 1.3K | Moreia | 42 |
| US United States | 773 | 1.3K rec. | 1 in 430K | 797 | Moreda | 89 |
| CO Colombia | 679 | 374 rec. | — | — | Morea | 38 |
| AR Argentina | 282 | 3.6K rec. | 1 in 161K | 282 | Moreda | 49 |
| VE Venezuela | 232 | 227 rec. | — | — | Morea | 12 |
| IT Italy | 212 | 176 rec. | — | 5 | Morea | 32 |
| MX Mexico | 193 | 173 rec. | — | — | Moreda | 23 |
| UY Uruguay | 80 | 86 rec. | — | — | Moreda | 5 |
| PT Portugal | 62 | 31 rec. | — | — | Moreia | 10 |
| GT Guatemala | 49 | 55 rec. | — | — | Moreda | 1 |
| CA Canada | 43 | 44 rec. | — | 1 | Moreda | 6 |
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●
- Portuguese51181%
- English518%
- French244%
- Spanish152%
- 81%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Portuguese | 511 | 81% |
| English | 51 | 8% |
| French | 24 | 4% |
| Spanish | 15 | 2% |
| 8 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Evidence●
Attested in 3 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.3K | #7,340 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 2 | #592 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames (Census 2010 + voter-file supplement) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 3 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Moreia?
- We estimate roughly 3.8 thousand people bear Moreia (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
- In which country does Moreia have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 1.4 thousand people bear Moreia in Spain, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled moreda.
- Where is Moreia most common?
- Moreia is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 37 thousand people carrying it.
- What does the name Moreia mean?
- Recorded meaning: moray (any eel of the family Muraenidae)
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About this data
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, “Moreia”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.