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Kiki

#8,114 in 2025Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Kiki has been given to 1,137 babies in the U.S. since 1920. In 2025 it ranked #8,114 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1975, with 42 recorded.

Babies named Kiki, 2025

1 in 255,000

Kiki over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kiki: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kiki means

Kiki is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Kiki is used in English.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Kiki is pronounced /ˈkiː.kiː/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,112 girls were recorded with the name Kiki between 1920 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 42 in 1975; its best national rank was #2,078 in 1975.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #6,784 in 2020 to #8,114 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #15,507 in 2015 to #8,114 in 2025.

In the United States, 25 boys were recorded with the name Kiki between 1980 and 1985. Its highest annual count was 10 in 1980; its best national rank was #4,000 in 1980.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Kiki?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 255,000
13 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 124,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#8,114
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
176,762 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kiki sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 176,762 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kiki. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kikis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kiki was born before 1980 — so the typical Kiki is around 45 today.

Median birth year
1980
About 45 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
24.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
29.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,044
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 24.6% of all recorded uses (273).

Is Kiki rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+88
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,330
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+7,393
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.17×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
31.0%
Peak was 1975 (42)
Years since peak
50
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,078
1975

Spellings of Kiki

Kiki is not the most common spelling — Kim is, with 24.8% against Kiki's 0.15%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Kiki is used

Across 1910–2025, Kiki was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 582,308 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Florida1 in —
  3. 3Georgia1 in —
  4. 4North Carolina1 in —
  5. 5New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Kiki has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Kiki around the world

Where Kiki ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1998–2025
    #2,138
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2013–2025
    #780
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2021–2021
    #2,930
    in 2021
  • South Australia
    1957–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Kiki by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#8,114
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,330
Best rank ever
#2,078
1975
Peak year
1975
42 that year
First recorded
1920
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,112
Count in 2025
13

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,000
1980
Peak year
1980
10 that year
First recorded
1980
Last recorded
1985
All-time count
25
Count in 2025
Under 5

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Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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