Ñea

surname · Latin script

Ñea is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States. Recorded meaning: Short form of Linnea.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Record sources
170 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

3 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Néa in US United States.

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)

Short form of Linnea.

Cited for this meaning 5

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Wiktionary
  • Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc
  • Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
  • Nordic Names

Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Ñea counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Ñea is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—450Néa170
FI Finland—7.7K—40
SE Sweden—1.3K—18
XK Kosovo—575——
HR Croatia—407——

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: DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021). 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 names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

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

  • Spanish name8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Mexico, Spain, Portugal, Greece

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Nea, Nëa, Nėa, Néa

3 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.

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Ñea under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Ñea mean, and where does it come from?
Short form of Linnea. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Wiktionary and 3 other sources.
In which country does Ñea have the most bearers?
Ñea is most frequently recorded in the United States, where it is most often spelled néa.

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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, “Ñea”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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