Egea

surname · Latin script

Meaning, in Spanish: feminine singular of egeo

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/eɣea/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Egea is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • ESSpain1 in 3.9K(measured from records)
  • ARArgentina1 in 29K
  • FRFrance≈1 in 44K

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.

Spain (measured from records)

12,728 people

Sources
186 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 3.9K (inferred from the name graph)

Spain

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

feminine singular of egeo

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

How Egea is read(measured from records)

Egea is one spelling over 4 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.

  • Spanish71%

    feminine singular of egeo

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • Catalan13%

    feminine singular of egeu

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • French13%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Egea in French.

  • Portuguese5.7%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Egea in Portuguese.

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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)

Egea 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.

Where Egea is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ES Spain#28912,7281 in 3.9K13KEgea140
AR Argentina—1,5551 in 29K1.6KEgea54
FR France—≈1,500 est.≈1 in 44K205Egea186
BR Brazil—1,0951 in 193K1.1K—1
CO Colombia—≈570 est.≈1 in 86K—Egea44
PR Puerto Rico—≈100 est.≈1 in 31K—Egea5
UY Uruguay—441 in 77K44Egea11

12,728 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Egea is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Portuguese surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Spain, United States, Portugal

    Also written Egéa, Egêa, Égea, Egeá

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Egéa, Égéa, Egêa

34 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Egea is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Italian, forma fem. de Egeo; do gr. Aighéus, ligado ao mar Egeu

    as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

  • Onda alta

    as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…

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)

1850190019502000Francisco Aguilera y Egea, b. 1857Julio Alfredo Egea Reche, b. 1926Antoni Egea, b. 1930Javier Egea, b. 1952José Manuel Egea, b. 1964Sonia Egea Pérez, b. 1969Ana Vidal Egea, b. 1984Teodoro García Egea, b. 1985Alexis Egea, b. 1987Alexandre Egea, b. 1990

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)

FormalEstimado/a Egea,Dear Egea, (English)
InformalEstimado/a Egea,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 24 sources across 16 countries.

Official registers attesting Egea
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—13K#426
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—13K#426
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—1.6K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—1.1K#8,545
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1961267—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1981246—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1971214—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1991205—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1951129—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)194163—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)192161—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)193153—

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

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 Egea mean, and where does it come from?
feminine singular of egeo Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Egea?
A machine transcription gives /eɣea/ (IPA) for Spanish.
In which country does Egea have the most bearers?
In Spain, the national register counted about 13 thousand people named Egea, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled egea.
Where is Egea most common?
Egea is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.9 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Egea?
In Spain, the national register counted 12,728 people named Egea, about 1 in 3.9 thousand residents.
How common is Egea compared with other names?
In Spain, Egea is the 289th most common surname of 395,154 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Egea” — the 289th most common surname in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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