Sica
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A curved dagger used in Ancient Roman times, associated with the Thracian and Illyrians, gladiators, and Sicarii
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈsikə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sica is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 167K(measured from records)
- UYUruguay1 in 5.3K
- ITItaly≈1 in 13K
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
- 264 (measured from records)
- 1 in 5.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈8,200 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A curved dagger used in Ancient Roman times, associated with the Thracian and Illyrians, gladiators, and Sicarii.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
How Sica is read(measured from records)
Sica is one spelling over 4 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.
- English50%
A curved dagger used in Ancient Roman times, associated with the Thracian and Illyrians, gladiators, and Sicarii.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish23%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Sica in Spanish.
- Italian8.8%
var. regional de Sicça
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Variante di Siccardi
as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
- Portuguese5.8%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Sica 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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sica 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.
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; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); the italian-surnames-defelice-1978 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)
Sica 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 Latin, a poniard, a curved dagger
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Guarani, Cadogan lo traduce como “Barreta, púa para flechas” ( [1960] 2005 : 75).
as a wordAguilera Jiménez (2021) — Guaraní surnames update to Cadogan's "Mil apellidos guaraníes"
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)
- John Okute Sicab. 1890CACanadian author and historian (1890–1964)
- Paolo Sicab. 1935ITItalian architect and urban planner (1935-1988)
- Mario Sicab. 1936ITItalian diplomat
- Vincenzo Sicab. 1945ITItalian physician and politician (born 1945)
- Gigliola Sicab. 1947ITItalian biologist (born 1947)
- Gabriella Sicab. 1950ITItalian poet
- Dante Sicab. 1957ARArgentinian economist and politician
- Gerardo SicaITItalian physicist
- Giorgio SicaITItalian philologist and literary critic
- Francesco SicaITItalian italianist
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 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2K | #14,854 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.9K | #14,812 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.9K | #14,349 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 887 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 635 | — |
| 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 3
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- 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 Sica mean, and where does it come from?
- A curved dagger used in Ancient Roman times, associated with the Thracian and Illyrians, gladiators, and Sicarii. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Sica?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈsikə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Sica have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 8.2 thousand people named Sica in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sica.
- Where is Sica most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sica is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 5.3 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Sica?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,994 people named Sica in 2010, about 1 in 167 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sicaThe 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, “Sica”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.