Lisica
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Lisica is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ukraine than in any other country. Recorded meaning: vixen (female fox).
- HRCroatia1 in 4.8K(measured from records)
- UAUkraine≈1 in 13Kas Лисиця
- RURussia≈1 in 43Kas Лисица
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Lisica itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Ukraine (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 130 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,500 named Лисиця, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Лисица in RU Russia, BY Belarus, TW Taiwan and Лисиця in UA Ukraine.
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)
vixen (female fox)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lisica 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA Ukraine | — | ≈3,500 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Лисиця | 33 |
| RU Russia | — | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 43K | — | Лисица | 130 |
| HR Croatia | #735 | 888 | 1 in 4.8K | 888 | Lisica | 52 |
| TW Taiwan | — | ≈530 est. | ≈1 in 45K | — | Лисица | 1 |
| BY Belarus | — | ≈460 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Лисица | 17 |
| RS Serbia | — | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Lisica | 22 |
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | — | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Lisica | 11 |
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: DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). 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)
Lisica is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Croatian, lisičja koža
as a wordMatasović, Pronk, Ivšić, Brozović Rončević (eds.), Etimološki rječnik hrvatskoga jezika, sv. 1-2 (2016)
In Slovenian, fox (Vulpes vulpes)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In sla-pro, fox, vixen
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 22 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 888 | #647 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 851 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Lisica mean, and where does it come from?
- vixen (female fox) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Lisica have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.5 thousand people named Лисиця in Ukraine, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Lisica most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Lisica is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 4.8 thousand people — even though Ukraine holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Lisica?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 888 people named Lisica in 2021, about 1 in 4.8 thousand residents.
- How common is Lisica compared with other names?
- In Croatia, Lisica is the 735th most common surname of 72,581 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Lisica?
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lisicaThe 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, “Lisica” — the 735th most common surname in Croatia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.