Chica
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Chica is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ecuador than in any other country. Recorded meaning: A Latin-American girl; a Latina.
- 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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 178 (measured from records)
- 1 in 978 (inferred from the name graph)
17,277 people, 2024
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Ecuador
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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 Latin-American girl; a Latina.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Chica 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EC Ecuador | #266 | 17,277 | 1 in 978 | 17K | Chica | 46 |
| CO Colombia | #490 | ≈6,800 est. | ≈1 in 7.2K | 8 | Chica | 107 |
| ES Spain | #821 | 5,628 | 1 in 8.9K | 5.6K | Chica | 122 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 52K | — | Chica | 32 |
| SV El Salvador | #353 | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | — | Chica | 30 |
| VE Venezuela | — | ≈760 est. | ≈1 in 38K | — | Chica | 16 |
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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Chica 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 scn, fold, crease, wrinkle
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Portuguese, girl, woman;
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)
- Bibiana Fernándezb. 1954ESnot in their usual nameSpanish actress, singer, presenter and model
- Fernando Chica Arellanob. 1963ESSpanish priest of the Catholic Church
- Manuel Pancorbob. 1966ESnot in their usual nameSpanish athletics competitor
- José Soto Chicab. 1971ESSpanish historian, novelist and university teacher
- Diego Chicab. 1981COColombian association football player
- Javier Chicab. 1985ESSpanish footballer
- Laura Pellicer Chicab. 1998ADAndorran canoeist
- Berta Aroca i Chicab. 2001ESCatalan content creator
- Patricia ChicaCACanadian film director and screenwriter
- Antonio Chica CalafESresearcher (ORCID 0000-0001-7519-2201)
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 23 sources across 14 countries.
Reference works 1
- 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 are other forms of the name Chica?
- In the etymology graph, Franca, Paca and Ziska are forms of the same name in other languages.
- What does the name Chica mean, and where does it come from?
- A Latin-American girl; a Latina. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Chica have the most bearers?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted about 17 thousand people named Chica, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled chica.
- Where is Chica most common?
- Chica is densest in Ecuador, where the national register counts about 1 in 978 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Chica?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted 17,277 people named Chica in 2024, about 1 in 978 residents.
- How common is Chica compared with other names?
- In Ecuador, Chica is the 266th most common surname of 34,511 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Chica?
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/chicaThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 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, “Chica” — the 266th most common surname in Ecuador. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.