Ricca
surname · Latin script
Meaning: feminine singular of ricco
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈɹikə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ricca is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 198K(measured from records)
- UYUruguay1 in 3.6K
- ITItaly≈1 in 17K
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
- 266 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,700 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
feminine singular of ricco
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ricca 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 | ≈3,700 est. | ≈1 in 17K | listed | Ricca | 43 |
| US United States | 1,676 | 1 in 198K | 1.7K | Ricca | 266 |
| AR Argentina | 1,299 | 1 in 35K | 1.3K | — | 1 |
| UY Uruguay | 945 | 1 in 3.6K | 945 | — | — |
| FR France | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 197K | 36 | — | 4 |
| CH Switzerland | 133 | 1 in 63K | 133 | Ricca | 10 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈30 est. | ≈1 in 93K | — | Ricca | 1 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); the italian-surnames-defelice-1978 register; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)
Ricca is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, da Enrico o Federico
as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
In Italian, forma feminina de Ricco
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In German, weibl. Vom., Kurzform von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In Italian, Variante di Ricco
as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
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)
- Giovanni Antonio Riccab. 1651ITarchitect (1651-1725)
- Francesco Riccab. 1755ITscientist
- Paul Riccab. 1897USAmerican mob boss (1897–1972)
- Agostinho Riccab. 1915PTPortuguese architect (1915-2010)
- Renzo L. Riccab. 1960ITItalian mathematician and academic
- Marco Riccab. 1962BRBrazilian actor
- Martín Riccab. 1985ARArgentinian actor and singer
- Valentina Riccab. 1993ITItalian ice hockey player
- Federico Riccab. 1994UYUruguayan association football player
- Giorgia RiccaITItalian female curler
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)
Attested in 27 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.7K | #15,439 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.7K | #16,958 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.6K | #17,493 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 1.3K | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 945 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 133 | #8,812 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 62 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 56 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 51 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 50 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 42 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 39 | — |
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 Ricca mean, and where does it come from?
- feminine singular of ricco Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Ricca?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɹikə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Ricca have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.7 thousand people named Ricca in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ricca.
- Where is Ricca most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ricca is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 3.6 thousand people — even though Italy holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Ricca?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,676 people named Ricca in 2010, about 1 in 198 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/riccaThe 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, “Ricca”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.