Chïca

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Chïca is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ecuador than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Spanish chica (“girl”).

rarermore common
  • ECEcuador1 in 978(measured from records)
  • SVEl Salvador≈1 in 3.4K
  • COColombia≈1 in 7.2K

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.

Ecuador (measured from records)

17,277 people, 2024

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
178 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 978 (inferred from the name graph)

Ecuador

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

ChïcaLatin(measured from records)
ЧикаCyrillic(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Chica in EC Ecuador, CO Colombia, ES Spain and 3 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)

Borrowed from Spanish chica (“girl”).

Sources 1

Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Chïca 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.

Where Chïca is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
EC Ecuador#26617,2771 in 97817KChica46
CO Colombia#490≈6,800 est.≈1 in 7.2K8Chica107
ES Spain#8215,6281 in 8.9K5.6KChica122
PH Philippines—≈2,100 est.≈1 in 52K—Chica32
SV El Salvador#353≈1,900 est.≈1 in 3.4K—Chica30
VE Venezuela—≈760 est.≈1 in 38K—Chica16

17,277 people counted by INEC — civil registry names, 2024. 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: INEC — civil registry names; the co-datosgov-candidates register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Chïca is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname33 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, Spain, Ecuador

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Chica, Chïcä, Čĥĩcă, Çhïćã, Chîcâ

2 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Chïca under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Chïca mean, and where does it come from?
Borrowed from Spanish chica (“girl”). Recorded by Wiktionary.
Is Chïca a male or female name?
Chïca is a female 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.
In which country does Chïca have the most bearers?
In Ecuador, the national register counted about 17 thousand people named Chïca, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled chica.
Where is Chïca most common?
Chïca is densest in Ecuador, where the national register counts about 1 in 978 people carrying it.
How common is the name Chïca?
In Ecuador, the national register counted 17,277 people named Chïca in 2024, about 1 in 978 residents.
How common is Chïca compared with other names?
In Ecuador, Chïca is the 266th most common surname of 34,511 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Chïca” — the 266th most common surname in Ecuador. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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