Spica

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Spica is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country. In English, recorded as A spike.

rarermore common
  • PLPoland1 in 79K(measured from records)
  • NONorway1 in 137K
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 175K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Poland (measured from records)

486 people, 2026

Sources
24 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 79K (inferred from the name graph)

Poland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

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)

Spica (blue-white giant star)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.

How Spica is read(measured from records)

Spica 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.

  • English54%

    A spike.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

    star

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • French18%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Spica in French.

  • Italian9.2%

    alternative form of spiga; ear (of corn); spike

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • Portuguese5.7%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Spica 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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)

Spica 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.

Where Spica is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PL Poland4861 in 79K244Spica24
US United States3031 in 1.1M303Spica6
BR Brazil1951 in 1.1M195——
CH Switzerland481 in 175K48—1
NO Norway401 in 137K40—1
BE Belgium111 in 1.1M11——

486 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026, counting the spelling śpica. 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; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Spica is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Portuguese surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Italy, United States

    Also written Spiça, Špica, Spicâ

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Śpica, Špica

35 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Spica 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 Polish, Spica (blue-white giant star)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In dsb, feminine nominative singular of spicy

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Latin, A head, ear, spike

    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)

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 18 sources across 11 countries.

Official registers attesting Spica
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010303#65,424
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000299#62,577
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020282#73,993
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—195#37,537
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)2026171—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—171#18,693
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)2026164—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—164#19,762
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)202448#19,268
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—40#29,823
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)200811#67,569
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

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 Spica come from?
Spica (blue-white giant star) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
What does the name Spica mean?
In English, A spike.
In which country does Spica have the most bearers?
In Poland, the national register counted about 486 people named Spica, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled spica.
Where is Spica most common?
Spica is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 79 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Spica?
In Poland, the national register counted 486 people named Spica in 2026, about 1 in 79 thousand residents.

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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, “Spica”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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