Tea

loc · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/ti/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Tea is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Georgia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Short form of Dorotea (“Dorothea”). Cognate with Scandinavian and English Thea.

rarermore common
  • NONorway1 in 464as Thea(measured from records)
  • DKDenmark1 in 1.1Kas Thea
  • SESweden1 in 1.2Kas Thea

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 Tea 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)

18,649 named თეა

5 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
381 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 539 (inferred from the name graph)

Croatia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

TheaLatin(measured from records)
თეაGeorgian(measured from records)
ТеаCyrillic(measured from records)
ΘεάGreek(measured from records)
테아Hangul(measured from records)

Locally spelled Thea in US United States, NO Norway, DE Germany and 3 more and თეა in GE Georgia.

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)

Short form of Dorotea (“Dorothea”). Cognate with Scandinavian and English Thea.

Sources 5

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Wiktionary
  • Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
  • Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
  • Nordic Names

Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.

Often considered alongside

Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Tea, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.

From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Tea 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 Tea is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
GE Georgia—18,649as თეა1 in 21419Kთეა74
US United States—13,402as Thea1 in 25K13KThea381
NO Norway#23011,790as Thea1 in 46437KThea84
DE Germany#780≈11,000 est.≈1 in 7.2K—Thea151
SE Sweden#3548,630as Thea1 in 1.2K8.6KThea61
HR Croatia—7,8381 in 5398.6KThea106
DK Denmark#3995,336as Thea1 in 1.1K5.3KThea103

18,649 people counted by Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API). 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; SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)

Tea is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name27 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, France, Australia, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, French, German

    Also written Téa, Te'A, Tea', Te’a, Teá

  • Finnish name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland

    Also written Téa

  • Spanish given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Honduras, Spain, United States, Mexico

    Also written Téa, Te'A, Teá

  • a separate name10 spellings in the group

    Also written Téa, Téä

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Téa, Ťea

  • Malay name8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Malaysia

    Also written Te'A, Ťêä, Ťëå, Tèa, Teâ

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Teā, Teå, Téa

54 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Tea is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In bpz, hard, strong, firm (said of wood, stone, steel, teeth, the heart, the will); the inner core of a tree, especially the lontar palm

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

  • In Spanish, torch (a stick with a flame on one end, used chiefly as a light source)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Portuguese, initialism of transtorno do espectro autista

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Estonian, present indicative connegative of teadma

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • ISO 639-3 language code for Temiar.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Chinese, afternoon tea (Classifier: 個／个 c)

    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)

19401960198020002020Tea Banh, b. 1945Tea Vikstedt-Nyman, b. 1959Thea Djordjadze, b. 1971Tea Lanchava, b. 1974Tea Tsulukiani, b. 1975Tea Donguzashvili, b. 1976Tea Falco, b. 1986Tea Sugareva, b. 1989Tea Tairović, b. 1996Tea Stjärne, b. 2001

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)

FormalDear Colleague,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 90 sources across 45 countries.

Official registers attesting Tea
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201.3K#20,162
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020101.1K#22,450
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000983#23,968
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—24#39,260

Reference works 5

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • 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 Tea?
A machine transcription gives /ti/ (IPA) for Hindi.
What does the name Tea mean, and where does it come from?
Short form of Dorotea (“Dorothea”). Cognate with Scandinavian and English Thea. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Wiktionary and 3 other sources.
In which country does Tea have the most bearers?
In Georgia, the national register counted about 19 thousand people named თეა, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Tea most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Tea is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 539 people — even though Georgia holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Tea?
In Croatia, the national register counted 7,838 people named Tea in 2021, about 1 in 539 residents.
How common is Tea compared with other names?
In Norway, Tea is the 230th most common given name of 25,788 given names 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, “Tea” — the 230th most common given name in Norway. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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