Foca
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Acronym of Formula One Constructors Association
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 12 countries
/fɔkə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Foca is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Romania than in any other country.
- RORomania≈1 in 24K(inferred from the name graph)
- MDMoldova≈1 in 43K
- ITItaly≈1 in 230K
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)
- Record sources
- 84 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 24K (inferred from the name graph)
≈900 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Romania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Acronym of Formula One Constructors Association.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
How Foca is read
(measured from records)Foca is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 4 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English43%
Acronym of Formula One Constructors Association.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish16%
seal (animal belonging to the parvorder Pinnipedia of semi-aquatic marine mammals)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Portuguese11%
earless seal (any seal in the family Phocidae)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Romanian9.9%
definite nominative/accusative singular of focă
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French9.2%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Foca in French.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Foca 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RO Romania | ≈900 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Foca | 8 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈500 est. | ≈1 in 466K | — | Foca | 1 |
| BR Brazil | 379 | 1 in 559K | 379 | — | 1 |
| IT Italy | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 230K | listed | Foca | 11 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 302K | — | Foca | 4 |
| MD Moldova | ≈79 est. | ≈1 in 43K | 45 | — | 2 |
| AT Austria | ≈32 est. | ≈1 in 277K | — | Foca | 8 |
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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); e-services.md — living population register; the xinhua-italian-manual 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Foca is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Galician, hole, piercing
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In nhg, seal (animal)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Flavia Focaresearcher
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)21 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 379 | #21,740 |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- What does the name Foca mean, and where does it come from?
- Acronym of Formula One Constructors Association. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Foca?
- A machine transcription gives /fɔkə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Foca have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 901 people named Foca in Romania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled foca.
- How common is the name Foca?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 379 people named Foca, about 1 in 559 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Foca?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/focaThe 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, “Foca”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.