Moreia
surname · Latin script
Meaning: moray (any eel of the family Muraenidae)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries
Moreia is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- ARArgentina1 in 180Kas Morea(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 164K
- ESSpain1 in 164Kas Morea
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Moreia itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 78 (measured from records)
- 1 in 164K (inferred from the name graph)
1,288 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Morea in AR Argentina, US United States, ES Spain.
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)moray (any eel of the family Muraenidae)
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Moreia 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 1,288 | 1 in 164K | 1.3K | Moreia | 41 |
| US United States | 773as Morea | 1 in 430K | 797 | Morea | 78 |
| ES Spain | 305as Morea | 1 in 164K | 305 | Morea | 49 |
| AR Argentina | 253as Morea | 1 in 180K | 253 | Morea | 51 |
| CH Switzerland | 31as Morea | 1 in 271K | 31 | — | 2 |
1,288 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)3 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.3K | #7,340 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Moreia mean, and where does it come from?
- moray (any eel of the family Muraenidae) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Moreia have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 1.3 thousand people named Moreia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled moreia.
- Where is Moreia most common?
- Moreia is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 164 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Moreia?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 1,288 people named Moreia, about 1 in 164 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Moreia?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/moreiaThe 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, “Moreia”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.