Rico
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: rich (having a lot of money and possessions)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/riko/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Rico is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- COColombia≈1 in 1.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- ESSpain1 in 1.7K
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 2.4K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 368 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈30,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Colombia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
Acronym of Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (Act).
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
How Rico is read(measured from records)
Rico is one spelling over 2 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.
- Spanish71%
rich (having a lot of money and possessions)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Lisboa, Porto, Serpa, Torres Vedras, Portugal, Galicia, España; pessoa importante; important person
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
- English20%
Acronym of Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (Act).
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Spanish; rich, noble ruler
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Rico 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | #452 | ≈30,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.6K | — | Rico | 86 |
| ES Spain | #145 | 29,823 | 1 in 1.7K | 30K | Rico | 201 |
| CO Colombia | #226 | ≈29,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | 16 | Rico | 155 |
| US United States | — | 25,954 | 1 in 13K | 26K | Rico | 368 |
| VE Venezuela | #369 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | — | Rico | 58 |
| SV El Salvador | #436 | ≈900 est. | ≈1 in 7.2K | — | Rico | 28 |
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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); the co-datosgov-candidates register. 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)
Rico 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 German, männl. Vom., italienische Kurzform von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In Italian, a diminutive of the male given name Enrico
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Don Ricob. 1912USPaperback and comic-book writer, screenwriter, artist (1912-1985)
- Paquita Ricob. 1929ESSpanish actress (1929-2017)
- Beatriz Ricb. 1970ESnot in their usual nameSpanish actress
- Julio César Baldiviesob. 1971BOnot in their usual nameBolivian association football player
- Mikel Rico Morenob. 1984ESSpanish footballer
- Fran Ricob. 1987ESSpanish footballer
- Alba Rico Navarrob. 1989ESSpanish actress
- Sergio Ricob. 1993ESSpanish association football player (born 1993)
- Diego Ricob. 1993ESSpanish footballer
- Álvaro Ricob. 1996ESSpanish actor
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 86 sources across 45 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 30K | #169 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 30K | #169 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 26K | #1,359 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 25K | #1,350 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 19K | #1,754 |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 16 | #100 |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- Where does the name Rico come from?
- Acronym of Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (Act). Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What does the name Rico mean?
- In Spanish, rich (having a lot of money and possessions)
- In which country does Rico have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 30 thousand people named Rico in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rico.
- How do you pronounce Rico?
- A machine transcription gives /riko/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What are other forms of the name Rico?
- In the etymology graph, Rich, Ritchie and Henning are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Rico?
- In Spain, the national register counted 29,823 people named Rico, about 1 in 1.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Rico compared with other names?
- In the Philippines, Rico is the 452nd most common surname of 876,464 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Rico?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ricoThe 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, “Rico” — the 452nd most common surname in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.