Čiča

surname · Latin script

Meaning: an old man

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

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

Čiča is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Serbia than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • HRCroatia1 in 16K(measured from records)
  • SISlovenia1 in 22K
  • RSSerbia≈1 in 26K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Serbia (inferred from the name graph)

≈270 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
20 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 16K (inferred from the name graph)

Croatia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

ČičaLatin(measured from records)
ЧичаCyrillic(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Cica in ES Spain.

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)

an old man

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Čiča 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 Čiča is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
RS Serbia≈270 est.≈1 in 26K—Čiča18
HR Croatia2581 in 16K258Čiča20
BA Bosnia & Herzegovina≈130 est.≈1 in 29K—Čiča5
SI Slovenia951 in 22K95—3
ES Spain221 in 2.3M22Cica7
CH Switzerland211 in 400K21—1

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: DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)

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

  • English surname27 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Brazil, Germany, Australia

    Languages: English, Portuguese, German

    Also written Cica, Ciça, Çiça, Ćica, ციცა

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Cica, Ciça, Čica

  • Czech surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Slovakia, Czechia, United Kingdom

    Languages: Czech, Slovak

    Also written Cica, Číča, Cíca, Cicá

  • Hindi surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India

    Also written Cica, Cíca, Ciça

  • French surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Ethiopia

    Also written Cica, Ciça, Cică

  • Romanian surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Romania, United States, Spain, Italy

    Also written Cica, Cică, Cîcă

  • Indonesian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Malaysia

    Also written Cica, 'Cica

3 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)

Čiča is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Czech, chicha (fermented beverage, most commonly made from maize, grapes or apples)

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

  • In Latvian, Dienvidamerikā - salds dzēriens ar niecīgu alkohola saturu

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

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)

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)

FormalPoštovani Čiča,Dear Čiča, (English)
InformalPoštovani Čiča,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 5 sources across 3 countries.

Official registers attesting Čiča
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)2021258#3,192
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021)2021215—
SI Sloveniastat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)—95#4,607

Reference works 1

  • 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

What does the name Čiča mean, and where does it come from?
an old man Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Čiča?
A machine transcription gives /ʃiʃa/ (IPA) for Croatian.
In which country does Čiča have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 270 people named Čiča in Serbia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled čiča.
Where is Čiča most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Čiča is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 16 thousand people — even though Serbia holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Čiča?
In Croatia, the national register counted 258 people named Čiča in 2021, about 1 in 16 thousand residents.

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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, “Čiča”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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