Mico
loc · Latin script
Meaning, in Catalan: monkey
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Mico is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 12K(measured from records)
- CRCosta Rica1 in 57K
- ALAlbania≈1 in 68K
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.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Sources
- 103 (measured from records)
- 1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
4,222 people
Highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Micó in ES Spain, AR Argentina, BR Brazil and 2 more.
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)
A small South American monkey (Mico melanurus, syn. Callithrix melanura), allied to the marmoset.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Mico is read(measured from records)
Mico is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Catalan10%
monkey
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English10%
A small South American monkey (Mico melanurus, syn. Callithrix melanura), allied to the marmoset.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mico 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | 4,222 | 1 in 12K | 4.2K | Micó | 103 |
| AR Argentina | 464 | 1 in 98K | 464 | Micó | 31 |
| IT Italy | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 184K | listed | — | 7 |
| FR France | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 212K | 41 | Micó | 1 |
| BR Brazil | 225 | 1 in 941K | 225 | Micó | 25 |
| CR Costa Rica | 89 | 1 in 57K | 89 | Micó | 3 |
| CZ Czechia | 74 | 1 in 145K | 74 | — | — |
| AL Albania | ≈45 est. | ≈1 in 68K | 74 | — | — |
4,222 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos), counting the spelling mico. 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); MVČR — living population register 2017; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); the xinhua-italian-manual register. 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Mico is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Spanish, a monkey with a prehensile tail
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, redução popular e coloquial de Michele
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Portuguese, any of several very small and long-tailed monkeys, such as capuchins and marmosets
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, to vibrate, quiver
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Richard Micob. 1590GBEnglish composer and organist
- Samuel Micob. 1610English merchant and benefactor
- Jane Micob. 1634English benefactor
- John Mico Gannettb. 1784American lawyer
- Mico Cundarib. 1930ITItalian actor
- Mico Nissimb. 1947FRFrench pianist
- Mico Olmosb. 1972USAmerican actor
- Meekzb. 1996GBnot in their usual nameBritish rapper
- Mico Ahonenb. 2001FIFinnish ski jumper
- Mico EggertDanish cinematographer
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 45 sources across 26 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 4.2K | #1,251 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 4.2K | #1,251 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 464 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 225 | #33,362 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 89 | #1,576 |
| AL Albania | INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts) | — | 74 | #3,392 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 53 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 51 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 41 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 38 | — |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 3 | #158,177 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 3 | #23,436 |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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
- Where does the name Mico come from?
- A small South American monkey (Mico melanurus, syn. Callithrix melanura), allied to the marmoset. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What does the name Mico mean?
- In Catalan, monkey
- In which country does Mico have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 4.2 thousand people named Mico, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled micó.
- Where is Mico most common?
- Mico is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 12 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Mico?
- In Spain, the national register counted 4,222 people named Mico, about 1 in 12 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Mico?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/micoThe 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, “Mico”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.