Ivica
given name · Latin script
Meaning: sinonim: rub (na platnu, suknu itd.)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/îʋitsa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ivica is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Croatia than in any other country, where it is the 17th most common given name.
- HRCroatia1 in 118(measured from records)
- RSSerbia≈1 in 615
- SISlovenia1 in 1.4K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Ivica itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Croatia (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 145 (measured from records)
- 1 in 118 (inferred from the name graph)
35,909 people, 2021
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Ивица in MK North Macedonia.
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)
sinonim: rub (na platnu, suknu itd.)
Sources 1
- Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ivica 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | #17 | 35,909 | 1 in 118 | 36K | Ivica | 145 |
| RS Serbia | #96 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 615 | listed | Ivica | 58 |
| MK North Macedonia | #96 | 2,879as Ивица | 1 in 738 | 2.9K | Ивица | 37 |
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | #66 | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 2K | — | Ivica | 35 |
| SI Slovenia | #788 | 1,491 | 1 in 1.4K | 926 | Ivica | 16 |
35,909 people counted by DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form), 2021. 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); State Statistical Office — living population names; SURS — resident population given names. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Ivica Račanb. 1944HR7th Prime Minister of Croatia (1944–2007)
- Ivica Barbarićb. 1962HRCroatian association football player and manager
- Ivica Dačićb. 1966RSSerbian politician (born 1966)
- Ivica Vastićb. 1969ATAustrian association football player
- Ivica Dragutinovićb. 1975RSSerbian footballer
- Ivica Olićb. 1979HRCroatian football player and manager
- Ivica Ilievb. 1979RSSerbian footballer
- Ivica Kostelićb. 1979HRCroatian Alpine skier
- Ivica Ivušićb. 1995HRCroatian association football player
- Ivica Zubacb. 1997HRCroatian basketball player (born 1997)
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 41 sources across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 36K | #11 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 31K | — |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2008 | 1K | #179 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2009 | 1K | #180 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2010 | 1K | #181 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2011 | 1K | #181 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2012 | 1K | #185 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2013 | 1K | #191 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2014 | 1K | #191 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2015 | 1K | #192 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2016 | 1K | #193 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2017 | 995 | #193 |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 Ivica mean, and where does it come from?
- sinonim: rub (na platnu, suknu itd.) Recorded by Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74).
- How do you pronounce Ivica?
- A machine transcription gives /îʋitsa/ (IPA) for Croatian.
- Is Ivica a male or female name?
- Ivica is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Ivica?
- In the etymology graph, John, Jack and Sean are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Ivan.
- In which country does Ivica have the most bearers?
- In Croatia, the national register counted about 36 thousand people named Ivica, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ivica.
- Where is Ivica most common?
- Ivica is densest in Croatia, where the national register counts about 1 in 118 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Ivica?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 35,909 people named Ivica in 2021, about 1 in 118 residents.
- How common is Ivica compared with other names?
- In Croatia, Ivica is the 17th most common given name of 14,066 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ivicaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Ivica” — the 17th most common given name in Croatia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.