Licona
surname · Latin script
Meaning: habitational name from Basque Likoa, in Biscay province (Basque Country)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/likona/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Licona is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mexico than in any other country.
- HNHonduras≈1 in 870(inferred from the name graph)
- MXMexico≈1 in 6.6K
- COColombia≈1 in 19K
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.
- Mexico (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 192 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 866 (inferred from the name graph)
≈20,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Honduras, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Licoña in BO Bolivia.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)habitational name from Basque Likoa, in Biscay province (Basque Country).
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where the surname Licona is found
(measured from records)Licona 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MX Mexico | #670 | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.6K | 453 | Licona | 141 |
| HN Honduras | #123 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 866 | — | Licona | 35 |
| CO Colombia | — | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 19K | 1 | Licona | 46 |
| US United States | — | 2,132 | 1 in 156K | 2.4K | Licona | 192 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 72K | — | Licona | 31 |
| BO Bolivia | — | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Licoña | 21 |
| NI Nicaragua | — | ≈98 est. | ≈1 in 70K | — | Licona | 9 |
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: RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; the co-datosgov-candidates 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Manuel de Gamarrab. 1723ESnot in their usual nameSpanish composer (1723-1791)
- Alejandro Liconab. 1953MXMexican writer
- Michael R. Liconab. 1961USNew Testament Scholar
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)14 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Licona mean, and where does it come from?
- habitational name from Basque Likoa, in Biscay province (Basque Country). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Licona?
- In Spanish /likona/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Licona?
- Mondonomo estimates about 20 thousand people named Licona in Mexico, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled licona. After it come Honduras, Colombia, United States and Peru; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Licona?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,132 people named Licona in 2010, about 1 in 156 thousand residents.
- How common is Licona compared with other names?
- In Mexico, Licona is the 670th most common surname of 206,803 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/liconaThe 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, “Licona” — the 670th most common surname in Mexico. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.