Given name
Ivica
Ivica is a feminine given name from Serbo-Croatian. It is used in Serbo-Croatian and Slovak.
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1974. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Ivica through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 11
- 11 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1974
- 6 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
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- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 1976. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 6 in 1974. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 365 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Ivica’s family of names
In Slovak usage, Ivica has a diminutive in IVKA. In German usage, Ivica has a related form in Johannes. In Slovak usage, Ivica has a diminutive in Ivuška.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
People named Ivica
- Ivica OlićCroatian football player and managerborn 1979
- Ivica VastićAustrian association football playerborn 1969
- Ivica DačićSerbian politician (born 1966)
- Ivica KostelićCroatian Alpine skierborn 1979
- Ivica BarbarićCroatian association football player and managerborn 1962
- Ivica DragutinovićSerbian footballerborn 1975
- Ivica Račan7th Prime Minister of Croatia (1944–2007)
- Ivica IvušićCroatian association football playerborn 1995
- Ivica KraljMontenegrin footballerborn 1973
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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