Kikuye
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Kikuye has been given to 95 babies in the U.S. since 1916. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1922, with 13 recorded.
Babies named Kikuye, 1931
1 in 421,000
Kikuye over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Kikuye?
Kikuye had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1931, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1931
- 1 in 421,000
- 5 of 2,104,333 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 213,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1931
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 291,724 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Kikuye sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1931 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 291,724 children born in 1931 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kikuye. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Kikuyes were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Kikuye was born before 1922 — so the typical Kikuye is around 103 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 64.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 0
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 64.2% of all recorded uses (61).
Is Kikuye 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1922 (13)
- Years since peak
- 103
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 23.7% average annual change
Where Kikuye is used
Across 1910–2025, Kikuye was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 25,000 girls, against 1 in 343,222 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Hawaii1 in 25,000
- 2California1 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. Kikuye has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Kikuye by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Kikuye
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Kikuye
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.