Sèa

Name: Sèa: recorded bearers, distribution and rank
Creator: Mondonomo
Published: 2026-10-13
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given name · Latin script

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

Sèa is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country, where it is the 11th most common surname. Recorded meaning: From Middle English see, from Old English sǣ (“sea”), from Proto-West Germanic *saiwi, from Proto-Germanic *saiwiz (compare West Frisian see, Dutch zee, German See, Danish sø, Norwegian Bokmål sjø, Sw. Sèa is also written Сима in Cyrillic, ชาร์มา in Thai and সাম in Bengali.

CICôte d’Ivoire≈1 in 4.7K(inferred from the name graph)
AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 590as Sharma
INIndia1 in 662as Sharma

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Sèa itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

: India (measured from records)
: #65 (measured from records)
: 8 (measured from records)
Record sources: 466 (measured from records)
: ≈1 in 4.7K (inferred from the name graph)

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Sèa in other scripts: Latin, Cyrillic, Thai and 5 more

SharmaSèa in Latin

СимаSèa in Cyrillic

ชาร์มาSèa in Thai

সামSèa in Bengali

სიმაSèa in Georgian

శర్మSèa in Telugu

ΣιμαSèa in Greek

샤르마Sèa in Korean (Hangul)

6 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Sharma in IN India, US United States, MY Malaysia and 1 more, Sima in NO Norway and Saima in AE United Arab Emirates.

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

Sèa

Middle Englishsee(measured from records)
Old Englishsǣ“sea”(measured from records)
Proto-West Germanic*saiwi(measured from records)
Proto-Germanic*saiwizcompare West Frisian see(measured from records)
Proto-Indo-European*sh₂ey-wo-“to be fierce“to be fierce, afflict”(measured from records)
Proto-Indo-European root*sīhwaną“to percolate“to percolate, filter”(measured from records)

From Middle English see, from Old English sǣ (“sea”), from Proto-West Germanic *saiwi, from Proto-Germanic *saiwiz (compare West Frisian see, Dutch zee, German See, Danish sø, Norwegian Bokmål sjø, Swedish sjö), probably either from Proto-Indo-European *sh₂ey-wo- (“to be fierce, afflict”) (compare Latin saevus (“wild, fierce”), Tocharian B saiwe (“itch”), Latvian sievs, sīvs (“sharp, biting”); more at sore) or derived from *sīhwaną (“to percolate, filter”), in which case *saiwiz is from earlier *saigwiz, Pre-Germanic *soykʷ-ís.

Cited for this meaning 4

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The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
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Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.

Where the surname Sèa is found

Sèa 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 Sèa is recorded, by country
Country					Most common spelling	Sources
IN India	#11	2,002,549as Sharma	1 in 662	2M	Sharma	387
BD Bangladesh	#139	≈66,000 est.	≈1 in 2.6K	listed	Sharma	77
US United States	—	28,559as Sharma	1 in 12K	112K	Sharma	466
AE United Arab Emirates	—	≈19,000 est.	≈1 in 591	—	Saima	70
MY Malaysia	#697	≈15,000 est.	≈1 in 2.4K	—	Sharma	72
CI Côte d’Ivoire	—	≈6,700 est.	≈1 in 4.7K	3.8K	—	8
NO Norway	—	2,106as Sharma	1 in 2.6K	2.4K	Sima	75

2,002,549 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Sèa 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 Sèa mean, and where does it come from?: From Middle English see, from Old English sǣ (“sea”), from Proto-West Germanic *saiwi, from Proto-Germanic *saiwiz (compare West Frisian see, Dutch zee, German See, Danish sø, Norwegian Bokmål sjø, Sw… Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular… and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 2 other sources.
Is Sèa a male or female name?: Sèa 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.
Which countries have the most people with the surname Sèa?: In India, the national register counted about 2.0 million people named Sharma, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Bangladesh, United States, United Arab Emirates and Malaysia; the country table on this page ranks them.
How common is the name Sèa?: In India, the national register counted 2,002,549 people named Sharma, about 1 in 662 residents.
How common is Sèa compared with other names?: In India, Sèa is the 11th most common surname of 1,492,515 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 2026-10-13 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, “Sèa” — ranked 10th in India (Instate). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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