Pèa

given name · Latin script

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

Pèa is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Congo - Kinshasa it is the 91st most common surname. Recorded meaning: Back-formation from pease, an original singular reinterpreted as a plural. Further from Middle English pese (“a pea”), from Old English pisa, from Latin pisa, pisum, from Ancient Greek πίσον (píson).

rarermore common
  • UYUruguay1 in 199K(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 322K
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 336K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

1,034 people, 2010

Sources
94 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 199K (inferred from the name graph)

Uruguay

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Pea in US United States, CD Congo - Kinshasa, 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)

Derivation of Pèa: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Pèa
  1. Middle Englishpese“a pea”(measured from records)
  2. Old Englishpisa(measured from records)
  3. Latinpisa(measured from records)
  4. Ancient Greekπίσονpíson(measured from records)

Back-formation from pease, an original singular reinterpreted as a plural. Further from Middle English pese (“a pea”), from Old English pisa, from Latin pisa, pisum, from Ancient Greek πίσον (píson).

Sources 2

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Wiktionary

Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Pèa 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 Pèa is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—1,0341 in 322K1.3KPea29
BR Brazil—811 in 2.6M81——
CH Switzerland—251 in 336K25—1
UY Uruguay—171 in 199K17——
ES Spain—161 in 3.1M16Pea9
CD Congo - Kinshasa#91———Pea4

1,034 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); 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)

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

  • Spanish surname36 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Mexico, Spain, Peru, United States

    Languages: Spanish, English, Portuguese

    Also written Pea, Peã, Pe'A, Pe-A, Péa

  • Swahili surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Congo - Kinshasa, Spain, United States, Peru

    Also written Pea, Péa

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.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Pèa under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Pèa mean, and where does it come from?
Back-formation from pease, an original singular reinterpreted as a plural. Further from Middle English pese (“a pea”), from Old English pisa, from Latin pisa, pisum, from Ancient Greek πίσον (píson). Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Wiktionary.
Is Pèa a male or female name?
Pèa is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
In which country does Pèa have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 1.0 thousand people named Pèa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pea.
Where is Pèa most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Pèa is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 199 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Pèa?
In the United States, the national register counted 1,034 people named Pèa in 2010, about 1 in 322 thousand residents.
How common is Pèa compared with other names?
In Congo - Kinshasa, Pèa is the 91st most common surname of 44,726 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, “Pèa” — the 91st most common surname in Congo - Kinshasa. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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