Tica
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Tica is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Romania than in any other country. In Spanish, recorded as feminine singular of tico.
- PEPeru≈1 in 41K(inferred from the name graph)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 165K
- USUnited States1 in 1.8M
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.
- Romania (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 107 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,500 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Romania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
alternative form of ptȉca (“bird”)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
How Tica is read(measured from records)
Tica is one spelling over 3 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.
- Spanish47%
feminine singular of tico
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English26%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Tica in English.
- Croatian7.8%
alternative form of ptȉca (“bird”)
as a wordrecorded as Serbo-Croatiankaikki.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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Tica 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RO Romania | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Tica | 17 |
| IN India | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | — | Tica | 2 |
| PE Peru | ≈780 est. | ≈1 in 41K | — | Tica | 35 |
| PH Philippines | ≈660 est. | ≈1 in 165K | — | Tica | 28 |
| RS Serbia | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Tica | 5 |
| US United States | 189 | 1 in 1.8M | 207 | Tica | 107 |
| HR Croatia | 177 | 1 in 24K | 179 | — | — |
| SI Slovenia | 41 | 1 in 51K | 41 | — | 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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)
Tica 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 Asturian, interjection used to call sheep or goats
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Aymara, Adobe de barro
as a wordVocabulario de la lengua aymara
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)
- Sergej Ticab. 1974BABosnian footballer (born 1974)
- Vladimir Ticab. 1981RSSerbian basketball player (born 1981)
- Jeremías Pérez Ticab. 2003ARArgentine footballer (born 2003)
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 28 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 207 | #94,713 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 189 | #96,368 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 179 | — |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 177 | #4,691 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 142 | #114,166 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 41 | #8,756 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Tica come from?
- alternative form of ptȉca (“bird”) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What does the name Tica mean?
- In Spanish, feminine singular of tico
- In which country does Tica have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.5 thousand people named Tica in Romania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tica.
- How common is the name Tica?
- In the United States, the national register counted 189 people named Tica in 2010, about 1 in 1.8 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ticaThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Tica”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.