Dea
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Initialism of Drug Enforcement Administration
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/dˈɛa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Dea is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Georgia than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 180K(measured from records)
- ALAlbania1 in 1.7K
- HRCroatia1 in 7.4K
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 Dea 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.
- Georgia (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 284 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.7K (inferred from the name graph)
2,496 named დეა
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Albania
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
Initialism of Drug Enforcement Administration.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Dea 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GE Georgia | #514 | 2,496as დეა | 1 in 1.6K | 2.5K | Dea | 34 |
| AL Albania | — | 1,849 | 1 in 1.7K | 1.8K | — | — |
| US United States | — | 1,846 | 1 in 180K | 1.7K | Dea | 284 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 43K | 123 | Dea | 33 |
| BR Brazil | — | 1,394 | 1 in 152K | 1.8K | — | 4 |
| HR Croatia | — | 568 | 1 in 7.4K | 816 | — | 2 |
| XK Kosovo | — | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 11K | 2.5K | — | 3 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 176 | 1 in 12K | 180 | — | 8 |
2,496 people counted by Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API), counting the spelling დეა. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search); Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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)
Dea is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, redução popular de Taddea
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In German, short form of DEGEN
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In German, weibl. Vom., schwedische Kurzform von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Diosa
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
In mch, alternative form of de'a (“still, again, at the same time or place”)
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)
- Déa Selvab. 1917BRBrazilian actress
- Circe Maiab. 1932UYnot in their usual nameUruguayan writer, poet, teacher, and translator
- Déa Lúciab. 1947BRactress
- Dea Birkettb. 1958GBBritish writer
- Dea Loherb. 1964DEGerman playwright and author (born 1964)
- Dea Viseb. 1967USactress
- Merete Dea Larsenb. 1978DKDanish politician and consultant
- Dea Klein-Šumanovacb. 1981HRCroatian basketball player (born 1981)
- Maretha Dea Giovanib. 1994IDIndonesian badminton player
- Dea Herdželašb. 1996BABosnian female tennis player
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 73 sources across 38 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.3K | #20,291 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.3K | #20,285 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.2K | #20,995 |
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
- How do you pronounce Dea?
- A machine transcription gives /dˈɛa/ (IPA) for Indonesian.
- What does the name Dea mean, and where does it come from?
- Initialism of Drug Enforcement Administration. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Dea have the most bearers?
- In Georgia, the national register counted about 2.5 thousand people named დეა, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Dea most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Dea is densest in Albania — about 1 in 1.7 thousand people — even though Georgia holds more of our records for it.
- Is Dea a male or female name?
- Dea 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.
- How common is the name Dea?
- In Albania, the national register counted 1,849 people named Dea, about 1 in 1.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Dea compared with other names?
- In Georgia, Dea is the 514th most common given name of 12,900 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Dea?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/deaThe 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, “Dea” — the 514th most common given name in Georgia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.