Rica
loc · Latin script
Meaning: fenugreek (Trigonella foenum-graecum)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Rica is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Colombia it is the 85th most common given name.
- NLNetherlands1 in 99K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 35as Erik
- USUnited States1 in 434as Eric
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 Rica 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- #350 (measured from records)
- 7 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 547 (measured from records)
- 1 in 99K (inferred from the name graph)
767,096 named Eric, 2020
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Erika in US United States, SE Sweden, DE Germany and 5 more, Erica in BR Brazil, אריקה in HU Hungary and Эрика in FI Finland.
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)
fenugreek (Trigonella foenum-graecum)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Rica 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #348 | 767,096as Eric | 1 in 434 | 766K | Erika | 547 |
| SE Sweden | #102 | 293,641as Erik | 1 in 35 | 294K | Erika | 129 |
| BR Brazil | #111 | 201,183as Erica | 1 in 1.1K | 232K | Erica | 197 |
| DE Germany | #154 | ≈130,000 est. | ≈1 in 612 | 1 | Erika | 222 |
| ID Indonesia | #403 | ≈87,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.1K | listed | Erika | 159 |
| HU Hungary | — | 80,705as Erika | 1 in 121 | 81K | אריקה | 6 |
| CO Colombia | #85 | ≈75,000 est. | ≈1 in 652 | 80 | Erika | 183 |
| FI Finland | #861 | 25,053as Erik | 1 in 222 | 47K | Эрика | 44 |
| DK Denmark | #715 | 23,634as Erik | 1 in 248 | 24K | Erika | 73 |
| NO Norway | #889 | 20,811as Erik | 1 in 263 | 74K | Erika | 51 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 175 | 1 in 99K | 29K | Erika | 68 |
767,096 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020, counting the spelling eric. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); the de-duesseldorf-vornamen register; the co-datosgov-candidates register; Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
Rica is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, weibl. Vom., Kurzform verschiedener
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In Galician, feminine singular of rico
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Asturian, feminine singular of ricu
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Catalan, feminine singular of ric
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ang, genitive plural of rīċe
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)
- Tomás Montejo y Ricab. 1856ESSpanish politician (1856-1933)
- Rica Reinischb. 1965DEEast German swimmer
- Duarte Cordeirob. 1979PTnot in their usual namePortuguese minister
- Andrea Ricab. 1984ESSpanish taekwondo practitioners
- Marcella Ricab. 1991BRBrazilian actress
- Rica Maaseb. 1999DEGerman volleyball player
- Jacob Ricab. 2000PHFilipino actor
- María Teresa Ortega RicaESSpanish politician
- Rita Rodriguez RicaESSpanish politician
- Susana Rica RubioESSpanish politician
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 57 sources across 30 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 969 | #12,476 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 200 | #86,657 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 175 | #3,934 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 165 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 154 | #29,146 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 123 | #136,449 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 112 | #147,954 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 85 | #24,882 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 78 | #9,211 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 52 | #11,805 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 28 | #12,476 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 25 | #18,997 |
Reference works 3
- 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
- What does the name Rica mean, and where does it come from?
- fenugreek (Trigonella foenum-graecum) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Rica have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 767 thousand people named Eric, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Rica most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Rica is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 99 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Rica?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 175 people named Rica, about 1 in 99 thousand residents.
- How common is Rica compared with other names?
- In the United States, Rica is the 348th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ricaThe 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, “Rica” — the 348th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.