Licata
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Licata is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country. Recorded meaning: a large town in the province of Agrigento, Sicily, Italy.
- USUnited States1 in 89K(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 98K
- ITItaly≈1 in 12K
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.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 322 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,300 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a large town in the province of Agrigento, Sicily, Italy
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Licata 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | ≈5,300 est. | ≈1 in 12K | listed | Licata | 51 |
| US United States | 3,750 | 1 in 89K | 3.8K | Licata | 322 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 37K | — | Licata | 1 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 237K | — | Licata | 3 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈670 est. | ≈1 in 98K | — | Licata | 63 |
| BE Belgium | 614 | 1 in 19K | 647 | Licata | 31 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈81 est. | ≈1 in 61K | — | Licata | 2 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈59 est. | ≈1 in 47K | — | Licata | 2 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Statbel — Noms de famille (family names); the italian-surnames-defelice-1978 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)
Licata 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.
habitational name from Licata, in Agrigento province.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Italian, oriundo da cidade siciliana de Licata; nome remonta ao gr. leukás/leukádos.
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
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)
- Augusto Licatab. 1851ITItalian painter (1851-1942)
- Giovanni Battista Licatab. 1856ITbotanist (1850-1886)
- Arturo Licatab. 1902ITItalian supercentenarian
- Riccardo Licatab. 1929ITItalian painter, engraver and sculptor (1929-2014)
- Nick Licatab. 1947USAmerican politician, member of Seattle City Council
- Richard V. Licatab. 1948USactor
- Ignazio Licatab. 1958Quantum theory physicist
- Alexandre Licatab. 1984FRFrench footballer
- Rosario Licatab. 1989ITItalian footballer
- Giovanni Licatab. 1997ITItalian rugby union player
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 24 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.8K | #8,747 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3.7K | #8,238 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.5K | #9,081 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 647 | #2,236 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 614 | #2,403 |
| IT Italy | Dizionario dei Cognomi Italiani (De Felice, 1978) | — | — | — |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- 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 Licata mean, and where does it come from?
- a large town in the province of Agrigento, Sicily, Italy Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Licata have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.3 thousand people named Licata in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled licata.
- How common is the name Licata?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,750 people named Licata in 2010, about 1 in 89 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, “Licata”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.