Vicario
surname · Latin script
Meaning: vicar
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/bikaɾjo/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Vicario is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 15K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 38K
- USUnited States1 in 274K
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.
- Spain (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 114 (measured from records)
- 1 in 15K (inferred from the name graph)
3,232 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Spain
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)
vicar
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Vicario 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | 3,232 | 1 in 15K | 3.2K | Vicario | 114 |
| JP Japan | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 66K | — | Vicario | 4 |
| IT Italy | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 36K | listed | Vicario | 32 |
| US United States | 1,212 | 1 in 274K | 1.2K | Vicario | 102 |
| AR Argentina | 1,184 | 1 in 38K | 1.2K | Vicario | 52 |
| CH Switzerland | 83 | 1 in 101K | 83 | Vicario | 7 |
3,232 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; the italian-surnames-defelice-1978 register; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
Vicario 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, do lat. vicarius, vigário, delegado, representante
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Italian, substitute, delegate, representative (someone who substitutes for or represents someone else of higher authority)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, dative/ablative singular of vicārius
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)
- Leona Vicariob. 1789MXMexican spy
- Marco Vicariob. 1925ITItalian actor (1925-2020)
- Miguel Ángel Portugalb. 1955ESnot in their usual nameSpanish football player/manager
- Francesco Vicariob. 1959ITItalian film director
- Emilio Sánchezb. 1965ESnot in their usual nameSpanish tennis player
- Arantxa Sánchez Vicariob. 1971ESSpanish tennis player
- Valentina Vicariob. 1973ITItalian actress
- Sandra Gallegob. 1976ESnot in their usual nameSpanish basketball player (born 1976)
- Margherita Vicariob. 1988ITItalian actress and singer-songwriter
- Guglielmo Vicariob. 1996ITItalian association football player (born 1996)
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 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 3.2K | #1,593 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 3.2K | #1,593 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.2K | #21,535 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 1.2K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.1K | #23,219 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.1K | #22,033 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 83 | #12,767 |
| 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
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname 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 Vicario mean, and where does it come from?
- vicar Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Vicario?
- A machine transcription gives /bikaɾjo/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Vicario have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 3.2 thousand people named Vicario, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled vicario.
- Where is Vicario most common?
- Vicario is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 15 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Vicario?
- In Spain, the national register counted 3,232 people named Vicario, about 1 in 15 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/vicarioThe 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, “Vicario”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.