Rico

25,453 people in the United States were counted with the surname Rico in the 2020 census, making it the 1,350th most common in the country. That is about one person in 11,700.

By the numbers

People: 25,453
Rank: 1,350th
How common: 1 in 11,700
Per 100,000: 8.5

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Rico described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Hispanic or Latino 88.3%
White, not Hispanic 7.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 2.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%
Black, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Rico

Sergio Rico (born 1993)Spanish association football player
Mikel Rico Moreno (born 1984)Spanish footballer
Diego Rico (born 1993)Spanish footballer
Álvaro Rico (born 1996)Spanish actor
Paquita Rico (1929–2017)Spanish actress
Fran Rico (born 1987)Spanish footballer
Juan Bautista Rico (1561–1613)Spanish Roman Catholic priest from the Trinitarian Order
Francisco Rico Manrique (1942–2024)Spanish hispanist

People named Rico with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Rico

Also a first name

Rico has been given to 9,971 American babies as a first name since 1915, peaking in 1991. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.