Riccio
surname · Latin script
Meaning: curly (of hair)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈɹitʃioʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Riccio is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- ITItaly≈1 in 5.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 65K
- USUnited States1 in 80K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 326 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈12,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
curly (of hair)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Riccio 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 114K | — | Riccio | 2 |
| IT Italy | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.3K | listed | Riccio | 77 |
| US United States | 4,169 | 1 in 80K | 4.2K | Riccio | 326 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 65K | 274 | Riccio | 88 |
| EG Egypt | ≈870 est. | ≈1 in 120K | — | Riccio | 2 |
| CH Switzerland | 442 | 1 in 19K | 442 | Riccio | 14 |
| UY Uruguay | 121 | 1 in 28K | 121 | — | — |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 44K | — | Riccio | 1 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈75 est. | ≈1 in 37K | — | Riccio | 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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); the italian-surnames-defelice-1978 register; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
Riccio 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 Italian, cacho de cábelo; lock of hair; Algiers
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
In Italian, do lat. ericius, ouriço; alude a cabelo/barba crespos
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Italian, Variante di Ricci
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)
- Michel Ricciob. 1445FRItalian-born French public official
- Paolo Ricciob. 1480DEGerman academic
- Domenico Ricciob. 1516ITItalian painter (1516-1567)
- David Rizziob. 1533ITnot in their usual namemurder victim, musician, secretary for French correspondence to Mary, Queen of Scots
- Felice Ricciob. 1542ITItalian painter (1542-1605)
- Giovanni Battista Ricciob. 1570ITItalian organist and composer
- Eros Ricciob. 1977ITItalian chess player
- Luigi Ricciob. 1977ITItalian footballer (born 1977)
- Bernardo Ricciob. 1985ITItalian bicycle racer
- Dan RiccioUSformer Apple senior vice president of Hardware Engineering
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 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 4.2K | #7,351 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 4.2K | #7,937 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.8K | #8,317 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 442 | #2,950 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 274 | #17,411 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 121 | — |
| 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 4
- 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 Riccio mean, and where does it come from?
- curly (of hair) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Riccio?
- In the etymology graph, Rizo is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Riccio?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɹitʃioʊ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Riccio have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 12 thousand people named Riccio in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled riccio.
- How common is the name Riccio?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,169 people named Riccio in 2010, about 1 in 80 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Riccio?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/riccioThe 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, “Riccio”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.