Bica
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Portuguese: spout, water pipe
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/bikɐ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bica is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- UYUruguay1 in 1.1K(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 43K
- RORomania≈1 in 6.6K
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 75 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
4,961 people
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
spout, water pipe
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Bica is read(measured from records)
Bica 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.
- Portuguese42%
spout, water pipe
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish26%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Bica in Spanish.
- English15%
Clipping of bicalutamide.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Bica 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.
4,961 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); 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)
Bica 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 cau-and-pro, mountain
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In Albanian, indefinite nominative/accusative plural of bic
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, haystack (or pile of sheaves)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Galician, tip of a spinning top
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)
- Alberto Bicab. 1958UYUruguayan association football player
- Carlos Bicab. 1958PTPortuguese jazz bassist, composer and bandleader
- Carlos Mário Costa Bicab. 1958PTPortuguese rally driver
- Dănuț Bicab. 1958RORomanian politician
- Laetitia Bicab. 1981BEBelgian photographer
- Álvaro Navarrob. 1985UYnot in their usual nameUruguayan footballer
- Alexander Bicab. 1997SESwedish Greco-Roman wrestler
- Vasile BicaRORomanian politician from Berghin, Alba County
- Alexandru Mihai BicaROPh.D. Babeş-Bolyai University 2004
- Cecilia Pop-BicaROresearcher
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 25 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 5K | #2,256 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 3K | — |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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 Bica mean, and where does it come from?
- spout, water pipe Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Bica?
- A machine transcription gives /bikɐ/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- In which country does Bica have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 5.0 thousand people named Bica, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bica.
- Where is Bica most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bica is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 1.1 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Bica?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 4,961 people named Bica, about 1 in 43 thousand residents.
- How common is Bica compared with other names?
- In Uruguay, Bica is the 224th most common surname of 57,630 surnames 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/bicaThe 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, “Bica” — the 224th most common surname in Uruguay. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.