Entry № 7390 · Basque origin

Nerea Nerea — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ neh-REH-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Basque
Meaning
"Mine"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Modern (Basque)

A name that means "mine".

Nerea is a Basque name meaning "mine" — coined by the writer Erramun Olabide in 1934 as a Basque alternative to the Spanish Pilar.

Nerea is widely used in the Basque Country and across Spain.

Mine. The Basque possessive made name.

The name in its native script.

Nerea
Transliteration
Nerea
Pronunciation
/ nəˈreɪ.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Nerea stands.

Nerea does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Nereas before her.

Real people
Nerea Camacho
Spanish actress.
born 1996
In fiction
Nerea
Common in Basque/Spanish fiction.

Names connected to Nerea.

The number behind Nerea.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Nerea reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.