Ica
Ica was last recorded in 1930, when 5 babies were given it; 223 Americans have been recorded with it between 1885 and 1930 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ica by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Ica mean?
Wiktionary, Hungarian section
Ica is “a diminutive of the female given name Ilona”
Clipping and -ca diminutive of Ilona.
[ˈit͡sɒ]
Meaning: Wiktionary, Hungarian section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Ica?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #4,845, in 1930; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
15 babies in 1914, the peak
Ica peaked in 1914, when 15 girls were given it, #1,776 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1930 | 5 | #4,845 | 4.4 |
| 1928 | 7 | #3,940 | 6.1 |
| 1927 | 5 | #5,147 | 4.2 |
| 1926 | 9 | #3,382 | 7.6 |
| 1925 | 6 | #4,655 | 4.9 |
| 1924 | 10 | #3,242 | 8.0 |
| 1922 | 5 | #5,347 | 4.2 |
| 1921 | 6 | #4,738 | 4.9 |
| 1920 | 8 | #3,762 | 6.7 |
| 1919 | 7 | #4,017 | 6.2 |
Every recorded year (29)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1918 | 12 | #2,740 | 10.4 |
| 1917 | 7 | #3,886 | 6.5 |
| 1916 | 7 | #3,702 | 6.7 |
| 1915 | 8 | #3,257 | 8.1 |
| 1914 | 15 | #1,776 | 19.7 |
| 1913 | 10 | #2,089 | 16.0 |
| 1906 | 11 | #1,186 | 37.3 |
| 1905 | 6 | #1,794 | 20.6 |
| 1904 | 10 | #1,203 | 36.3 |
| 1903 | 5 | #1,917 | 19.1 |
| 1902 | 11 | #1,098 | 41.7 |
| 1901 | 6 | #1,562 | 25.1 |
| 1899 | 7 | #1,320 | 30.0 |
| 1898 | 11 | #1,067 | 42.5 |
| 1894 | 7 | #1,281 | 31.4 |
| 1893 | 5 | #1,524 | 23.5 |
| 1890 | 6 | #1,270 | 31.5 |
| 1887 | 5 | #1,215 | 34.3 |
| 1885 | 6 | #976 | 45.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ica a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ica has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 29 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ica: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ica, and how old are they?
An estimated 1 Americans named Ica and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made.
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 3,652 babies since 1880, Ica is the fifth most given (6.1% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Ica
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Ica and names like it
- Compare Ica and IcieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sIca peaked in 1914.
- Hungarian namesWiktionary’s origin for Ica: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1914The year the most babies were named Ica.
- Names starting with IMost given first.