Neasa
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Irish Gaelic; feminine form of Neal/Neil; champion
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/nɑsə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Neasa is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ireland than in any other country.
- IEIreland≈1 in 39K(inferred from the name graph)
- GYGuyana1 in 750K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 1.6M
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.
- Ireland (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 67 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 39K (inferred from the name graph)
≈130 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Ireland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Irish Gaelic; feminine form of Neal/Neil; champion
Sources 1
- Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Neasa 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IE Ireland | #820 | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 39K | listed | Neasa | 56 |
| US United States | — | ≈55 est. | ≈1 in 6M | 5 | Neasa | 67 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈33 est. | ≈1 in 2M | 4 | Neasa | 44 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 1.6M | — | Neasa | 22 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 7.5M | — | Neasa | 9 |
| GY Guyana | — | 1 | 1 in 750K | 1 | — | 1 |
| LV Latvia | — | 1 | 1 in 1.9M | 1 | — | — |
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: SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present); the irish-first-names-coghlan-1985 register; NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register). 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)
Neasa 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.
According to Irish legend Neasa was Conchobhar’s mother. Pronounced Nes-a.
as a nameIrish first names
In Irish, In legend, mother of Conchobhar.
as a nameIrish first names
In Scottish Gaelic, genitive singular of neas
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Irish, nearer, closer
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)
- Neasa Ní Annracháinb. 1922IEIrish actress
- Neasa Ní Chinnéideb. 1952IEIrish broadcaster
- Neasa Ní Chianáinb. 1975IEIrish documentary filmmaker
- Neasa Houriganb. 1980IEIrish Teachta Dála (member of Parliament)
- Neasa HardimanIEIrish television director and screenwriter
- Neasa Ní ChualáinIEIrish radio broadcaster
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 7 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2008 | 5 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 2020 | 4 | #333 |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 2015 | 3 | #426 |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 2014 | 3 | #439 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 1 | #593 |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 1 | — |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 1 | #104,352 |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 2025 | — | — |
| IE Ireland | Irish First Names (Coghlan, 1985) | — | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 2023 | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 2022 | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 2021 | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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
- How do you pronounce Neasa?
- A machine transcription gives /nɑsə/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Neasa mean, and where does it come from?
- Irish Gaelic; feminine form of Neal/Neil; champion Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular….
- What are other forms of the name Neasa?
- In the etymology graph, Neassa is a form of the same name in other languages.
- Is Neasa a male or female name?
- Neasa is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Neasa have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 132 people named Neasa in Ireland, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled neasa.
- How common is the name Neasa?
- In Guyana, the national register counted 1 people named Neasa in 2025, about 1 in 750 thousand residents.
- How common is Neasa compared with other names?
- In Ireland, Neasa is the 820th most common given name of 14,976 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/neasaThe 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, “Neasa” — the 820th most common given name in Ireland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.