Nerea
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Origine basque, signifie « mienne »
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/neɾea/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Nerea is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 730(measured from records)
- ARArgentina≈1 in 13K
- FRFrance≈1 in 265K
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)
- Sources
- 188 (measured from records)
- 1 in 730 (inferred from the name graph)
68,489 people
Highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Origine basque, signifie « mienne ».
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nerea 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | #224 | 68,489 | 1 in 730 | 68K | Nerea | 188 |
| AR Argentina | #612 | ≈3,500 est. | ≈1 in 13K | 378 | Nerea | 55 |
| US United States | — | 286 | 1 in 1.2M | 285 | Nerea | 118 |
| FR France | — | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 265K | listed | Nerea | 109 |
| VE Venezuela | — | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 164K | — | Nerea | 14 |
| UY Uruguay | #561 | 151 | 1 in 22K | 151 | Nerea | 13 |
| AD Andorra | #564 | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 6.5K | — | Nerea | 11 |
| IS Iceland | — | 6 | 1 in 58K | 6 | — | — |
68,489 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); RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); the grand-guide-prenoms-unknown register; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)
Nerea 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 German, in Spanien geläufiger weibl. Vom., weibliche Form von Nereus. In der grie chischen Mythologie war Nereus ein Wasser- und Meeresgott.
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Acquatica
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)
- Filip Neriusz Walterb. 1810PLnot in their usual namePolish chemist
- Nereo Roccob. 1912ITnot in their usual nameItalian football manager (1912–1979)
- Nikolina Shterevab. 1955BGnot in their usual nameBulgarian middle distance runner
- Nikolina Brnjacb. 1978HRnot in their usual nameCroatian politician, State Secretary for European Affairs
- Nerea Barrosb. 1981ESSpanish actress
- Nina Dobrevb. 1989BGnot in their usual nameBulgarian-Canadian actress
- Nerea Penab. 1989ESSpanish handball player
- Nerea Camachob. 1996ESSpanish actress
- Nerea Rodríguezb. 1999ESSpanish singer and actress
- Nerea Martíb. 2002ESSpanish racing driver
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 53 sources across 29 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 68K | #136 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 68K | #71 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 378 | #337 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 285 | #30,462 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 151 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 150 | — |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 2015 | 49 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 2015 | 49 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 11 | — |
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2026 | 6 | — |
| UY Uruguay | Montevideo Open Data — Nombres por año y sexo (1940–2012) | 2011 | 2 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1 | #30,462 |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Nerea mean, and where does it come from?
- Origine basque, signifie « mienne ». Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- How do you pronounce Nerea?
- A machine transcription gives /neɾea/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Nerea a male or female name?
- Nerea 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 Nerea have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 68 thousand people named Nerea, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nerea.
- Where is Nerea most common?
- Nerea is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 730 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Nerea?
- In Spain, the national register counted 68,489 people named Nerea, about 1 in 730 residents.
- How common is Nerea compared with other names?
- In Spain, Nerea is the 224th most common given name of 135,644 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Nerea?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nereaThe 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, “Nerea” — the 224th most common given name in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.