Morea
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Spanish and Catalan; habitational name from any of the places named Morea in Navarre, Lleida, or Badajoz provinces
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈmɔɹiə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Morea is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 430K(measured from records)
- PGPapua New Guinea≈1 in 24K
- ITItaly≈1 in 48K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Morea itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 188 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 24K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,300 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Papua New Guinea, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
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 in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Morea 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 48K | 5 | Morea | 23 |
| BR Brazil | 1,288as Moreia | 1 in 164K | 1.3K | — | — |
| US United States | 773 | 1 in 430K | 797 | Morea | 188 |
| ES Spain | 305 | 1 in 164K | 305 | Morea | 15 |
| PG Papua New Guinea | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 24K | 12 | — | 5 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 121K | — | Morea | 1 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); PNG Election Results Database — candidate names (1972–2022). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Giambattista Moreab. 1640ITItalian Roman Catholic prelate
- Vitangelo Moreab. 1782ITItalian physician (1782-1865)
- Domenico Moreab. 1833ITItalian historian and presbyter
- Alfredo Moreab. 1897ITItalian politician
- Enrique Moreab. 1924ARArgentine tennis player
- Ben Moreab. 1941USAmerican artist and activist (1941-2026)
- Francisco Antonio Moreab. 1951ARArgentine researcher
- Antonella Moreab. 1956ITItalian actress
- Dino Moreab. 1975INIndian actor, model, film producer
- Francisco MoreaARArgentine civil engineer
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 41 sources across 23 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 797 | #31,175 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 794 | #28,326 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 773 | #30,277 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 305 | #11,885 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 305 | #11,873 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 73 | #79,953 |
| PG Papua New Guinea | PNG Election Results Database — candidate names (1972–2022) | — | 12 | #24 |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Morea mean, and where does it come from?
- Spanish and Catalan; habitational name from any of the places named Morea in Navarre, Lleida, or Badajoz provinces. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Morea?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈmɔɹiə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Morea have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.3 thousand people named Morea in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled morea.
- How common is the name Morea?
- In the United States, the national register counted 773 people named Morea in 2010, about 1 in 430 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Morea?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/moreaThe 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, “Morea”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.