Given name & surname
Ea
“a fiery man”
Ea is a variant of Eagan. One Irish interpretation is “a fiery man.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Ea is a variant of Eagan. One Irish interpretation is “a fiery man.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Ea is a variant of Eagan. An origin associated with Eagan is Irish.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1953. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Ea through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 11
- 0 boys · 11 girls
- Most popular year
- 1953
- 6 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2011. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 6 in 1953. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 266 as a first name in 2020; 536 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Ea
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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