Fórmica

surname · Latin script

Fórmica is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

  • ARArgentina1 in 72K(measured from records)
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 97K
  • BEBelgium1 in 106K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

1,393 people, 2010

Record sources
94 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 72K (inferred from the name graph)

Argentina

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Formica in AR Argentina, US United States, BR Brazil 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)
recorded in Portuguese

do lat. formica, formiga; pode indicar hab. de Formica

Cited for this meaning 1

  • Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.

Where the surname Fórmica is found

(measured from records)

Fórmica 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 Fórmica is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States1,3931 in 239K1.4KFormica69
AR Argentina6311 in 72K631Formica43
BE Belgium1111 in 106K111Formica4
CH Switzerland871 in 97K87Formica7
BR Brazil751 in 2.8M75Formica28
UY Uruguay201 in 169K20Formica5

1,393 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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).

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Fórmica 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

Which countries have the most people with the surname Fórmica?
In the United States, the national register counted about 1.4 thousand people named Fórmica, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled formica. After it come Argentina, Belgium, Switzerland and Brazil; the country table on this page ranks them.
Where is Fórmica most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Fórmica is densest in Argentina — about 1 in 72 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Fórmica?
In the United States, the national register counted 1,393 people named Fórmica in 2010, about 1 in 239 thousand residents.

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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, “Fórmica”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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