Ricci

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Ricci is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

• English40%

  Marco, Italian painter; Nina, Italian

  as a name·Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  designer; Sebastiano, Italian

  as a name·Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  painter

  as a name·Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

• French20%

  No dictionary in our sources glosses Ricci in French.

• Spanish17%

  No dictionary in our sources glosses Ricci in Spanish.

• Italian9.7%

  It. ricco curly. Vars.: (Lo) Riccio, Rizzi, (Lo) Rizzo; Risso (Liguria). Dims.: Riccelli, Rizzelli, Rizz(i)ello, Rizzillo, Riccetti, Rizzetti, Rizzetto; Riccini (partly Jewish), Rizzini, Riciol(in)i, Ricciolino, Rizz(i)oli, Rizzolo, Rissolo, Ricciulli, Ricciotti, Rizzotti, Rizzotto. Augs.: Riccioni, Rizzon(i), Rizzone, Rissone.

  as a name·A dictionary of surnames

  forma plural de Riccio

  as a name·Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

• Portuguese7.5%

  No dictionary in our sources glosses Ricci in Portuguese.

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Ricci is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Spanish surname7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Argentina, Brazil, United States, Peru

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

  Also written Riccí, Rìcci, Rìccî, Rïčçį

• Italian surname9 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Italy, United States, Canada, United Kingdom

  Also written Riccì, Rīććì, Rîccî, Riccï, Rícci

• a separate name2 spellings in the group

  Also written Rícci

• German surname2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Germany, United States, Italy, Switzerland

  Also written Rîççï

• Hindi surname3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Italy, Canada, United Kingdom

  Languages: Hindi, Urdu

  Also written Rîccî

76 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

• Matteo Riccib. 1552ITItalian Catholic missionary (1552–1610)
• Sebastiano Riccib. 1659ITItalian painter (1659–1734)
• Christina Riccib. 1980USAmerican actress (born 1980)

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).

50 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 26 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

How do you pronounce Ricci?

It depends on the language: in Spanish /ritʃi/; in Italian /ˈrit.t͡ʃi/ (Wiktionary); in Portuguese /ɾiksi/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.

What does the name Ricci mean?

Recorded meaning: It. ricco curly. Vars.: (Lo) Riccio, Rizzi, (Lo) Rizzo; Risso (Liguria).

Which countries have the most people with the surname Ricci?

Mondonomo estimates about 62 thousand people named Ricci in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ricci. After it come United States, Brazil, France and Argentina; the country table on this page ranks them.

How common is the name Ricci?

In the United States, the national register counted 11,534 people named Ricci in 2010, about 1 in 29 thousand residents.

How common is Ricci compared with other names?

In Antigua & Barbuda, Ricci is the 325th most common surname of 30,187 surnames recorded there.