Dea is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.
There’s a good chance that a girl named Dea in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Dea in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Dea by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Dea ranks at #5,959. That means there are 5,958 more common girls names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Dea.
If your name is Dea your parents may be very proud to let their daughter swim against the tide: The name Dea never ranked higher than position 1,510 in our statistics, and for many years not a single parent had the creative idea of naming their daughter Dea. But something caused mothers and fathers in 1901 to choose the name more often than usual - only compared to the rest of the time, of course. You probably still won't find many children named Dea because that was several decades ago - unless, of course, you have some very creative parents in the neighborhood.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Dea was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
As in the last century, Dea still proves to be exceptional. Even in 2022, the name was given very rarely - in fact, only 19 times in the entire U.S. So, a Dea from 2022 will need very good binoculars to spot the next namesake of the same age.
It is not so easy to find a woman or girl named Dea in the USA. Although the name is not sooooo rare overall, it is only at home in a few selected regions of the USA. In the entire United States there are currently a total of 133 women and girls named Dea, but there are vast areas of the country where not a single person with this name can be found. In fact, the 133 women and girls named Dea live in no more than 6 different states, including for example California, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma and Oregon. In all other 43 states, there are no – or, to be precise, less than a handful – women called Dea. (To explain: The official statistics provide the data per state only if at least five women with a specific name live in the same state. So, it’s quite possible that there are one or two states where someone with the name Dea lives although the name is not listed in the official statistics. Should you be one of those rare people whose name is Dea and you live outside the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics.). The state with the most girls and women named Dea relative to its female population is New York. And even there, only one in 172,947 women and girls would raise her hand if you asked, who is called Dea.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter D is quite common as an initial letter for girls' names. To be precise, 5.6% of all girls' names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of girls' names, by the way, are A, S and M.
With only three letters, the name Dea is obviously very short. In fact, only 1.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly three letters. Just 0.2% of all first names are even shorter and only have two letters, while nearly 99% of all boys’ and girls’ names use more than three letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Therefore: As 5.6% of all girls' names start with D, this initial letter occurs much more often than all 26 letters on average. And maybe interesting to know: of all the names that begin with a D, Dorothy is the most common.
If your name is Dea and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Dea, you can simply say:
Dinosaur
Elephant
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Dea
Dea
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
D
E
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
D
E
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Dea sounds like this:
