Lică
org · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Lică is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Clipping of Vasilică.
- PLPoland1 in 41K(measured from records)
- RORomania≈1 in 100K
- NONorway1 in 171K
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.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 52 (measured from records)
- 1 in 41K (inferred from the name graph)
938 people, 2026
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Lica in RO Romania, ES Spain, US United States and 1 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)
Clipping of Vasilică.
Sources 1
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lică 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.
938 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Marcel Licăb. 1957RORomanian association football player
- Viorel Licăb. 1995ROfootballer
- Amalia Licăb. 2009RORomanian rhythmic gymnast
- Iulian LicăRORomanian politician from Crângeni, Teleorman County
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 2 sources across 1 country.
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 does the name Lică mean, and where does it come from?
- Clipping of Vasilică. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Lică have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 938 people named Lică, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Lică most common?
- Lică is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 41 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Lică?
- In Poland, the national register counted 938 people named Lică in 2026, about 1 in 41 thousand residents.
- How common is Lică compared with other names?
- In Romania, Lică is the 557th most common surname of 78,699 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Lică?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lic%C4%83The 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, “Lică” — the 557th most common surname in Romania. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.