Ricco
surname · Latin script
Meaning: rich, wealthy, affluent (owning a lot of money or wealth)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈɹɪkoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ricco is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 278K(measured from records)
- ITItaly≈1 in 14K
- UYUruguay1 in 25K
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
- 236 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,300 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
rich, wealthy, affluent (owning a lot of money or wealth)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ricco 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 | ≈4,300 est. | ≈1 in 14K | listed | Ricco | 43 |
| US United States | 1,195 | 1 in 278K | 1.2K | Ricco | 236 |
| BR Brazil | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 205K | 111 | — | 3 |
| AR Argentina | 605 | 1 in 75K | 605 | — | — |
| ID Indonesia | ≈510 est. | ≈1 in 522K | listed | — | 2 |
| FR France | ≈510 est. | ≈1 in 134K | 46 | — | 2 |
| UY Uruguay | 134 | 1 in 25K | 134 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 66 | 1 in 127K | 66 | Ricco | 19 |
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); the italian-surnames-defelice-1978 register; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); 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)
Ricco is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, redução de nomes como Enrico/Federico/Odorico; ou do germ. rikia/rihhi
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In German, in den i96oer-Jahren entlehnter männl. Vom., italienische Kurzform von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
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)
- Neil Raymond Riccob. 1953USauthor
- Carina Riccob. 1969MXMexican musician
- Renato Riccob. 1976ITItalian italianist
- Daniele Riccob. 1984ITItalian civil engineer
- Antonello RiccoITItalian art historian
- Mattia RiccoITItalian electronic engineer
- Donna RiccoUSAmerican fashion designer
- Antonio RiccoITPh.D. Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati 2006
- Antonio J. RiccoUSresearcher
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 53 sources across 28 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.2K | #19,942 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.2K | #21,759 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.2K | #22,750 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.1K | #8,305 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 605 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 134 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 77 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 66 | #15,172 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 46 | — |
| 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
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 Ricco mean, and where does it come from?
- rich, wealthy, affluent (owning a lot of money or wealth) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Ricco?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɹɪkoʊ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Ricco have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.3 thousand people named Ricco in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ricco.
- How common is the name Ricco?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,195 people named Ricco in 2010, about 1 in 278 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/riccoThe 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, “Ricco”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.