Voicu
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/vojku/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Voicu is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Romania than in any other country, where it is the 34th most common surname. Recorded meaning: < blg. Boillio I. 1. Voico (Dm ; Rel ; Cat ; T-Rom 105). 2. Voicu si Voicut n. act. ; -escu, -esti si -easa ss. 3. Voica f., frecv., doamna lui Patrascu eel Bun, etc. 4.
- RORomania≈1 in 924(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 1.8M
- MDMoldova≈1 in 16K
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.
- Romania (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 129 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 924 (inferred from the name graph)
≈23,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Romania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
< blg. Boillio I. 1. Voico (Dm ; Rel ; Cat ; T-Rom 105). 2. Voicu si Voicut n. act. ; -escu, -esti si -easa ss. 3. Voica f., frecv., doamna lui Patrascu eel Bun, etc. 4. Voichifa -Maria, sau Vochifa, doamna lui Stefan eel Mare ; Vochifa f., olt. (AO IV 191). 5. Voicu/eci (17 B I 59) ; Voiculefu. t. 6. Voiculan (17 B IV 132). 7. Voicup b., munt. (Sd XXII ; RI I 21). 8. V oicoaia f. (16 B II 56), marital, 9. Voicuf (17 B III 197). 10. Voichina b. (17 B I 167). 11. Cu sincopa Vochin, D. act. ; Marin. -Axel, An Pit 79). 12. Voican (Tec I; 16 B VI 339). 13. Voicucean 1626 (D Gorj). II. + -ea, -in, -iu, cf. big. Bo NO : 1. Voice, -a (Drj 14, 56) ; Voicea, olt. (13-15 B 227 ; Cat ; 17 B 1 90) ; - ard. (Pas) ; Voicescu si Voicioaia (Puc); Alvoicii (Pas). 2. Cf. Voca f. sec. al XVI-lea (P Gov f° 11) ; Vocea b. (17 B III 550, IV 278 ; Gorj 258). 3. Vociu act. 4. Voicelu (P Bor 52), pren. 5. Voicelea (17 B I 27). 6. Voicilas, M. din Chiojdu (Drj 99). 7. Voicina b. (Hur 243). III. Din forma magh. V aj k < sl. Vojk : 1. Vaicu, ard., 1780 (Pas). 2. Vaicotd (ib.).
Sources 1
- Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Voicu 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); e-services.md — living 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Ștefan Voicub. 1906RORomanian communist politician
- Ion Voicub. 1923RORomani violinist (1923–1997)
- Jorj Voicub. 1938ROactor
- Mădălin Voicub. 1952RORomanian politician
- Pavel Voicub. 1973MDMoldovan politician
- Irinel Voicub. 1977RORomanian footballer
- Mircea Voicub. 1980RORomanian footballer
- Ionuț Voicub. 1984RORomanian footballer
- Adrian Ionuț Voicub. 1992ROassociation football player
- Andreea Voicub. 1996RORomanian footballer
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 25 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 1.2K | #3,879 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 1.2K | #3,875 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 213 | #92,574 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 183 | #98,982 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 101 | #149,328 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 68 | #7,990 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- How do you pronounce Voicu?
- A machine transcription gives /vojku/ (IPA) for Romanian.
- What does the name Voicu mean?
- Recorded meaning: < blg. Boillio I. 1. Voico (Dm ; Rel ; Cat ; T-Rom 105). 2. Voicu si Voicut n. act. ; -escu, -esti si -easa ss. 3. Voica f., frecv., doamna lui Patrascu eel Bun, etc. 4.
- In which country does Voicu have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 23 thousand people named Voicu in Romania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled voicu.
- How common is the name Voicu?
- In Spain, the national register counted 1,159 people named Voicu, about 1 in 43 thousand residents.
- How common is Voicu compared with other names?
- In Romania, Voicu is the 34th most common surname of 78,699 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/voicuThe 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, “Voicu” — the 34th most common surname in Romania. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.