Alea
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/eɪliə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Alea is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 89K(measured from records)
- ALAlbania1 in 4.5K
- SISlovenia1 in 18K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 256 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.5K (inferred from the name graph)
3,735 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Albania
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Alea 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 3,735 | 1 in 89K | 3.7K | Alea | 256 |
| PH Philippines | ≈850 est. | ≈1 in 128K | — | Alea | 42 |
| AL Albania | 683 | 1 in 4.5K | 683 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 534 | 1 in 19K | 534 | — | 8 |
| DE Germany | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 230K | 19 | Alea | 73 |
| SI Slovenia | 119 | 1 in 18K | 141 | — | 1 |
| DK Denmark | 80 | 1 in 73K | 80 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | 15 | 1 in 50K | 15 | Alea | 3 |
3,735 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); the de-munich-standesamt register; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
Alea is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Romanian, nominative/accusative feminine/neuter plural of ăla: those
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Finnish, partitive singular of ale
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, a die
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, risk
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)
- Alea Räberb. 1993CHSwiss association football player
- Alea Rögerb. 1997DEGerman association football player
- Alea O'Sheab. 2000AUAustralian 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).
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)
Attested in 61 sources across 34 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 3.7K | #4,826 |
| AL Albania | INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts) | — | 683 | #720 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 534 | #2,640 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 275 | — |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 141 | #1,239 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2025 | 119 | #673 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 80 | #1,877 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 56 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 38 | #4,826 |
| DE Germany | Stadt München Standesamt — Vornamenstatistik PDF (official publication) | 2024 | 19 | #97 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — Najpogostejša imena in priimki (population register) | 2024 | 16 | — |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 15 | #579 |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Alea?
- A machine transcription gives /eɪliə/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Alea a male or female name?
- Alea 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 are other forms of the name Alea?
- In the etymology graph, Aliye, Aaliyah and Aleah are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Alea have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 3.7 thousand people named Alea, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled alea.
- Where is Alea most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Alea is densest in Albania — about 1 in 4.5 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Alea?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,735 people named Alea in 2020, about 1 in 89 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Alea?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/aleaThe 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, “Alea”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.