Kîkï

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Kîkï is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country. Recorded meaning: In the sense "lesbian who is neither butch nor femme", sometimes said to mean "neither-nor" in some language; related to kai kai (“sexual activity between drag queens”); see that entry for more.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 138K(measured from records)
  • NLNetherlands1 in 4K
  • DKDenmark1 in 25K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Netherlands (measured from records)

4,352 people

Sources
138 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 4.0K (inferred from the name graph)

Netherlands

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Kiki in NL Netherlands, US United States.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

In the sense "lesbian who is neither butch nor femme", sometimes said to mean "neither-nor" in some language; related to kai kai (“sexual activity between drag queens”); see that entry for more. In the sense "a gathering for gossiping and chit-chat", perhaps imitative of giggling.

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Kîkï 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.

Where Kîkï is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NL Netherlands4,3521 in 4K4.3KKiki14
US United States2,4131 in 138K2.2KKiki138
DK Denmark2371 in 25K237——
SE Sweden1101 in 93K110—2
FI Finland371 in 151K58——

4,352 people counted by Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Kîkï is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name24 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, Netherlands, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Kiki, Ki-Ki, Kïkï, Kíkí, Kīkī

  • Persian given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Kiki

  • French given name18 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Cameroon, Algeria

    Also written Kiki, Kīkī, Kïki, Kïkï, Ki-Ki

1 further group record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Kîkï under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Kîkï mean, and where does it come from?
In the sense "lesbian who is neither butch nor femme", sometimes said to mean "neither-nor" in some language; related to kai kai (“sexual activity between drag queens”); see that entry for more. Recorded by Digital Pāḷi Dictionary and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
In which country does Kîkï have the most bearers?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 4.4 thousand people named Kîkï, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kiki.
Where is Kîkï most common?
Kîkï is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 4.0 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Kîkï?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted 4,352 people named Kîkï, about 1 in 4.0 thousand residents.

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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, “Kîkï”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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