Cléa
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Modern form, often a variant of Clea/Clio or short form of Cléopâtre; origin varies
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 13 countries · latest register: INSEE, 2024
/klea/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Cléa is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 33K(measured from records)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 133K
- USUnited States1 in 464K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 210 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 27K (inferred from the name graph)
6,355 people, 2022
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Clea in BR Brazil, US United States, PH Philippines and 3 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Modern form, often a variant of Clea/Clio or short form of Cléopâtre; origin varies.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Cléa counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 6,355 | 1 in 33K | 7.9K | Clea | 96 |
| FR France | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 27K | 11K | — | 5 |
| PH Philippines | ≈820 est. | ≈1 in 133K | — | Clea | 39 |
| US United States | 717 | 1 in 464K | 672 | Clea | 210 |
| IT Italy | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 316K | 14 | Clea | 17 |
| CH Switzerland | ≈86 est. | ≈1 in 97K | — | Clea | 20 |
| DK Denmark | 65 | 1 in 90K | 65 | — | — |
| UY Uruguay | 28 | 1 in 121K | 28 | Clea | 4 |
6,355 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Cléa Simõesb. 1927BRBrazilian actress
- Cléa Vincentb. 1985FRFrench singer
- Cléa Maillardb. 2000FRFrench actress
- Cléa Brousseb. 2004FRFrench trampoline gymnast
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)18 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 11K | #244 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 7.9K | #2,495 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 4 | #14,034 |
Reference works 1
- 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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Cléa mean, and where does it come from?
- Modern form, often a variant of Clea/Clio or short form of Cléopâtre; origin varies. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- How do you pronounce Cléa?
- A machine transcription gives /klea/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Cléa have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 6.4 thousand people named Cléa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled clea.
- Is Cléa a male or female name?
- Cléa is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: France (INSEE, 2024).
- How common is the name Cléa?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 6,355 people named Cléa in 2022, about 1 in 33 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Cléa?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cl%C3%A9aThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Cléa”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.