Tea

Locally spelled Thea in US United States, NO Norway, DE Germany and 3 more and თეა in GE Georgia.

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.

Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.

Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Tea, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.

• Tay
• Chai
• Mochi
• Taya
• Tia

From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.

Tea is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• English given name27 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, France, Australia, United Kingdom

  Languages: English, French, German

  Also written Téa, Te'A, Tea', Te’a, Teá

• Finnish name3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Finland

  Also written Téa

• Spanish given name5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Honduras, Spain, United States, Mexico

  Also written Téa, Te'A, Teá

• a separate name10 spellings in the group

  Also written Téa, Téä

• a separate name3 spellings in the group

  Also written Téa, Ťea

• Malay name8 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Malaysia

  Also written Te'A, Ťêä, Ťëå, Tèa, Teâ

• a separate name4 spellings in the group

  Also written Teā, Teå, Téa

54 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.

Tea is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In bpz, hard, strong, firm (said of wood, stone, steel, teeth, the heart, the will); the inner core of a tree, especially the lontar palm

  as a word·Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

• In Spanish, torch (a stick with a flame on one end, used chiefly as a light source)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Portuguese, initialism of transtorno do espectro autista

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Estonian, present indicative connegative of teadma

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• ISO 639-3 language code for Temiar.

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Chinese, afternoon tea (Classifier: 個／个 c)

  as a word·kaikki.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.

• Tea Banhb. 1945KHDeputy Prime Minister and Minister for National Defence for Cambodia
• Tea Tsulukianib. 1975GEGeorgian politician (born 1975)
• Tea Falcob. 1986ITItalian 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).

90 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 45 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

What does the name Tea mean, and where does it come from?

Short form of Dorotea (“Dorothea”). Cognate with Scandinavian and English Thea. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Wiktionary and 3 other sources.

Which countries have the most people named Tea?

Mondonomo estimates about 19 thousand people named Thea in Germany, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Georgia, United States, Norway and Sweden; the country table on this page ranks them.

Where is Tea most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Tea is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 539 people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.

How common is the name Tea?

In Croatia, the national register counted 7,838 people named Tea in 2021, about 1 in 539 residents.

How common is Tea compared with other names?

In Germany, Tea is the 780th most common given name of 156,202 given names recorded there.