Fico
surname · English · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Fico is a surname, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. It appears chiefly in English and Italian, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: From Italian fico (“a fig”), from Latin fīcus. Doublet of fig.
- USUnited States1 in 412K◐
- NZNew Zealand1 in 88K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 136K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈1.4K ◐
- Sources
- 100 ●
- 1 in 88K ◐
across 13 countries
7.7K records
Official registry-verified
New Zealand
Meaning & origin●
- Italianfico“a fig”●
- Latinfīcus●
From Italian fico (“a fig”), from Latin fīcus. Doublet of fig.
Sources 2
- Wiktionary
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by estimated bearers.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | ≈807 | 6.5K rec. | 1 in 412K | 704 | Fico | 100 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈192 | 565 rec. | 1 in 342K | — | Fico | 20 |
| CH Switzerland | ≈62△ | 17 rec. | 1 in 136K | 65 | Fico | 10 |
| CA Canada | ≈61 | 113 rec. | 1 in 622K | — | Fico | 6 |
| DE Germany | ≈56 | 83 rec. | 1 in 1.4M | — | Fico | 21 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈56 | 61 rec. | 1 in 88K | — | Fico | 1 |
| AU Australia | ≈50 | 137 rec. | 1 in 513K | — | Fico | 12 |
| AT Austria | ≈24 | 20 rec. | 1 in 362K | — | Fico | 3 |
| NL Netherlands | ≈14 | 27 rec. | 1 in 1.3M | 12 | Fico | 4 |
| BE Belgium | ≈12 | 26 rec. | 1 in 1M | 7 | Fico | 8 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈12 | 19 rec. | 1 in 241K | — | Fico | 1 |
| IT Italy | ≈11 | 8 rec. | 1 in 5.4M | — | Fico | 7 |
Roughly 807 people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 412K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English7.5K67%
- Italian1.3K12%
- Spanish8978%
- French5915%
- German2532%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 7,550 | 67% |
| Italian | 1,337 | 12% |
| Spanish | 897 | 8% |
| French | 591 | 5% |
| German | 253 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1891 | 4 |
| 1901 | 7 |
| 1911 | 4 |
| 1921 | 12 |
| 1931 | 10 |
| 1941 | 10 |
| 1951 | 9 |
| 1961 | 19 |
| 1971 | 14 |
| 1981 | 11 |
| 1991 | 16 |
FR INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) — 11 years between 1891–1991. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Ettore Ficob. 1917painter (1917-2004)
- Carlos Ficob. 1959BRBrazilian historian and professor
- Robert Ficob. 1964SKPrime Minister of Slovakia since 2023
- Roberto Ficob. 1974ITItalian politician (born 1974)
- Gary Ficob. 1986FRFrench singer
- Raffaella Ficob. 1988ITItalian female model
- Delina FicoALAlbanian civil society activist
- Daniela Ficoresearcher
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●
Attested in 24 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 704 | #34,625 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 702 | #31,235 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 566 | #38,948 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 243 | #31,348 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 65 | #15,331 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 37 | #36,088 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 37 | #12,132 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 32 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 22 | #80,301 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 22 | #78,058 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 19 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 16 | — |
Reference works 3
- 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 2026-09-06 data build · 65 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Fico?
- We estimate roughly 1.4 thousand people bear Fico (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.
- In which country does Fico have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 807 people bear Fico in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled fico.
- Where is Fico most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Fico is densest in New Zealand — about 1 in 88 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- What does the name Fico mean?
- Recorded meaning: From Italian fico (“a fig”), from Latin fīcus. Doublet of fig.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Fico”. Data snapshot 2026-08-31.