Cea
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: Dims, (of 3 and 4): Fr.: Cavel, Caveau, Cavin, Cavy. of Leon and Orense. The placename is first found in the form Cegia, and it is probably related to Ceja 2. Cavell see Chaff 17 Cebolla Cerisier
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/sea/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Cea is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Chile than in any other country.
- CLChile≈1 in 2.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 3.1K
- ESSpain1 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.
- Chile (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 157 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈8,100 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Chile, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
Dims, (of 3 and 4): Fr.: Cavel, Caveau, Cavin, Cavy. of Leon and Orense. The placename is first found in the form Cegia, and it is probably related to Ceja 2. Cavell see Chaff 17 Cebolla Cerisier
Sources 1
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
How Cea is read(measured from records)
Cea is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish78%
Dims, (of 3 and 4): Fr.: Cavel, Caveau, Cavin, Cavy. of Leon and Orense. The placename is first found in the form Cegia, and it is probably related to Ceja 2. Cavell see Chaff 17 Cebolla Cerisier
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
- English15%
Initialism of carcinoembryonic antigen.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Cea 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CL Chile | #274 | ≈8,100 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | — | Cea | 91 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈5,400 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Cea | 43 |
| ES Spain | — | 2,846 | 1 in 18K | 2.8K | Cea | 121 |
| SV El Salvador | #335 | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 3.1K | — | Cea | 35 |
| US United States | — | 1,275 | 1 in 261K | 1.3K | Cea | 157 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 96 | 1 in 35K | 96 | Cea | 8 |
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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE Uruguay — Apellidos 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Cea 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 Latin, Keos, one of the Cyclades situated in front of Sunium
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
ISO 639-3 language code for Lower Chehalis.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, feminine singular of cel: the (one that is)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In vec, feminine singular of ceo
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)
- Francisco Cea Bermúdezb. 1779ESSpanish politician and diplomat (1779-1850)
- Eduardo Cea Naharrob. 1843ESSpanish politician
- Ricardo Mellab. 1861ESnot in their usual nameSpanish anarchist (1861-1925)
- Eusebio Rodolfo Cordón Ceab. 1899SVPresident of El Salvador (1899-1966)
- Pedro Ceab. 1900ESUruguayan footballer (1900-1970)
- José Luis Cea Egañab. 1940CLChilean judge
- María Xosé Cimadevilab. 1959ESnot in their usual nameSpanish politician (1959-2005)
- María Socorro Cea Vázquezb. 1970ESSpanish politician
- Claudio Ceab. 1977CHfilm editor
- Severo CeaPHFilipino politician
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 33 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 2.8K | #1,794 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 2.8K | #1,793 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.3K | #20,739 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.3K | #21,233 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1K | #23,582 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 96 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname 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
- What does the name Cea mean, and where does it come from?
- Dims, (of 3 and 4): Fr.: Cavel, Caveau, Cavin, Cavy. of Leon and Orense. The placename is first found in the form Cegia, and it is probably related to Ceja 2. Cavell see Chaff 17 Cebolla Cerisier Recorded by The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles.
- How do you pronounce Cea?
- A machine transcription gives /sea/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Cea have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 8.1 thousand people named Cea in Chile, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cea.
- How common is the name Cea?
- In Spain, the national register counted 2,846 people named Cea, about 1 in 18 thousand residents.
- How common is Cea compared with other names?
- In Chile, Cea is the 274th most common surname of 94,777 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ceaThe 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, “Cea” — the 274th most common surname in Chile. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.