Kîkį

given name · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Kîkį is a given name used for both men and women, 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
  • NLNetherlands1 in 4K(measured from records)
  • DKDenmark1 in 25K
  • SESweden1 in 93K

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

Record sources
41 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: 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, DK Denmark and 1 more.

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 17 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Kîkį 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 Kîkį is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NL Netherlands4,3521 in 4K4.3KKiki5
US United States2,4131 in 138K2.2KKiki36
DK Denmark2371 in 25K237Kiki41
SE Sweden1101 in 93K110Kiki19
FI Finland371 in 151K58—1

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).

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Kîkį 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 Kîkį 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.
Is Kîkį a male or female name?
Kîkį is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
In which country does Kîkį have the most bearers?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 4.4 thousand people named Kîkį, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kiki.
Where is Kîkį most common?
Kîkį is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 4.0 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Kîkį?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted 4,352 people named Kîkį, 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, “Kîkį”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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