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Updated June 9, 2019

Boy name origins & meanings

  • Polynesian : Chief

Boy name variations

Family name origins & meanings

  • Spanish and Galician : habitational name, principally from Vea in Soria province, but in some cases from any of four places with the same name in Pontevedra province, Galicia.
  • Catalan : habitational name from any of the places named Bea or Vea in the Catalan-speaking areas.
  • Norwegian : habitational name from any of four farmsteads so named, from the plural of Old Norse viðr ‘wood’, ‘tree’.

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