Neusa

Meaning & origin

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

Attested across 2 languages 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◐

Neusa is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• French given name845 records spelled Neusa4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, Spain, United States, Brazil

  Languages: French, Catalan

  Also written Nëüsä, Néusa

31 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●

Neusa 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 Russian, var of Neusha.

  as a word·A Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)

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●

BR IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) — 11 years between 1930–2022. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Neusa Goulart Brizolab. 1921BRformer First Lady of Rio de Janeiro
• Neusa Amatob. 1926BRBrazilian physicist
• Neusa Maria Farob. 1945BRBrazilian actress
• Neusinha Brizolab. 1954BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian singer-songwriter (1954-2011)
• Neusa Cadoreb. 1955BRBrazilian politician
• Neusa Silva Zuzab. 1956BRperson identified in the Museu da Pessoa collection
• Neusa Dias de MacedoBRuniversity professor and researcher active in Brazil
• Neusa Kunhã TaquáBRBrazilian indigenous activist

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 · 118 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Neusa?

We estimate roughly 94 thousand people bear Neusa (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.

In which country does Neusa have the most bearers?

We estimate about 94 thousand people bear Neusa in Brazil, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled neusa.

How common is Neusa compared with other names?

In Brazil, Neusa is the 265th most common given name of 536,280 given names recorded there.

Is Neusa a male or female name?

Neusa 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.