Nea
given name · Finnish · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Nea is a given name, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country. It appears chiefly in Finnish and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: a female given name of modern usage.
- USUnited States1 in 739K◐
- FIFinland1 in 734
- SESweden1 in 8.1K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈10.0K ●
- Sources
- 147 ●
- 1 in 734 ◐
across 13 countries
5.9K records
Official registry-verified
Finland
Meaning & origin●
a female given name of modern usage
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 19 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | 7,591△ | 209 rec. | 1 in 734 | 7.7K | Nea | 43 |
| SE Sweden | 1,266△ | 93 rec. | 1 in 8.1K | 1.3K | Nea | 19 |
| US United States | 450 | 4.1K rec. | 1 in 739K | 450 | Nea | 147 |
| AU Australia | 368 | 381 rec. | — | 1 | Nea | 44 |
| PH Philippines | 300 | 195 rec. | — | — | Nea | 22 |
| AT Austria | 298 | 8 rec. | — | 88 | Nea | 10 |
| BR Brazil | 223△ | 1 rec. | 1 in 949K | 304 | Nea | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | 206 | 8 rec. | — | 45 | Nea | 4 |
| DE Germany | 197 | 155 rec. | — | 1 | Nea | 38 |
| GB United Kingdom | 174 | 252 rec. | — | listed | Nea | 26 |
| SI Slovenia | 152△ | 6 rec. | 1 in 14K | 162 | — | 6 |
| HR Croatia | 126 | — | 1 in 34K | 407 | — | — |
Roughly 7.6K people in Finland bear this name (about 1 in 734). 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●
- Finnish32K66%
- English5.2K11%
- Portuguese4K8%
- Croatian1.5K3%
- Spanish9152%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Finnish | 31,650 | 66% |
| English | 5,202 | 11% |
| Portuguese | 3,964 | 8% |
| Croatian | 1,523 | 3% |
| Spanish | 915 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Nea 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 Swedish, Nea är från början en smekform till → Linnea. Det har också setts som en feminin motsvarighet till → Neo. I den finlandssvenska almanackan 3 augusti.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
from Mac Niadh, see McNee .
as a nameThe Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Nueva
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
In men, pron., 1 per., I, connected with the future tense and , conditional sentences. Nga wa lo, I shall come; nga li, l may
as a wordVocabulary of the Mende Language
In cdo, to close the eves, as in death ming Hecox the a sky, pitying, compas
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
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●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1932 | 5 |
| 1972 | 6 |
| 1973 | 5 |
| 1975 | 8 |
| 1977 | 9 |
| 1980 | 12 |
| 1981 | 10 |
| 1982 | 5 |
| 1984 | 6 |
| 1986 | 7 |
| 1987 | 6 |
| 1989 | 8 |
| 1990 | 7 |
| 1991 | 9 |
| 1994 | 5 |
| 1995 | 7 |
| 1996 | 8 |
| 1997 | 6 |
| 1998 | 5 |
| 1999 | 6 |
| 2000 | 8 |
| 2001 | 13 |
| 2002 | 9 |
| 2003 | 14 |
| 2004 | 15 |
| 2005 | 7 |
| 2006 | 8 |
| 2007 | 16 |
| 2008 | 16 |
| 2009 | 11 |
| 2010 | 10 |
| 2011 | 10 |
| 2012 | 8 |
| 2013 | 14 |
| 2014 | 7 |
| 2015 | 11 |
| 2016 | 12 |
| 2017 | 10 |
| 2018 | 12 |
| 2019 | 9 |
| 2020 | 7 |
| 2021 | 8 |
| 2022 | 8 |
| 2023 | 6 |
| 2024 | 12 |
| 2025 | 16 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 46 years between 1932–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Nea Morinb. 1905GBBritish mountain climber (1905-1986)
- Néa Simõesb. 1923BRBrazilian actress (1923-2002)
- Nea Weissbergb. 1951DEGerman author
- BeBe Zahara Benetb. 1981CMnot in their usual nameCameroonian-American entertainer
- Nea Duneb. 1985HRCroatian actress
- Nea Luukkob. 1996FIFinnish alpine skier
- Nea Lehtolab. 1998FIFinnish association football player
- Nea Tervonenb. 2003FIFinnish ice hockey player (2003- )
- Ingrid CollinsNZnot in their usual nameNew Zealand businesswoman
- Nea WillströmFIFinnish 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●
Attested in 61 sources across 36 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 7.7K | #513 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 7.6K | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 1.3K | #1,447 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 813 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | — | 575 | #1,048 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 450 | #21,264 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 407 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 372 | #3,071 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 304 | #19,629 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 223 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 220 | #23,511 |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 2025 | 193 | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 · 260 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Nea?
- We estimate roughly 10.0 thousand people bear Nea (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.
- In which country does Nea have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 7.6 thousand people bear Nea in Finland, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled nea.
- Where is Nea most common?
- Nea is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 734 people carrying it.
- Is Nea a male or female name?
- Nea 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 Nea mean?
- Recorded meaning: a female given name of modern usage
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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, “Nea”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.