Kïkë
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Kïkë is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Diminutive of the given name Enrique. "Rique", English speakers' usual first guess, is too close to "Ricky," short for Richard, which is also used in Spanish when referring to a Ricardo.
- COColombia≈1 in 13K(inferred from the name graph)
- CLChile≈1 in 20Kfew records
- MXMexico≈1 in 25K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 87 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
≈12,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Colombia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Kike in MX Mexico, ES Spain, CO Colombia and 4 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)Diminutive of the given name Enrique. "Rique", English speakers' usual first guess, is too close to "Ricky," short for Richard, which is also used in Spanish when referring to a Ricardo.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Kïkë 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Kike | 9 |
| MX Mexico | ≈5,200 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | Kike | 48 |
| CO Colombia | ≈4,000 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Kike | 31 |
| CL Chile | ≈970 est. | ≈1 in 20K | 1 | Kike | 18 |
| US United States | ≈750 est. | ≈1 in 456K | 7 | Kike | 41 |
| EC Ecuador | ≈660 est. | ≈1 in 28K | 2 | Kike | 9 |
| ES Spain | 290 | 1 in 172K | 290 | Kike | 87 |
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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024). 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
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kïkë mean, and where does it come from?
- Diminutive of the given name Enrique. "Rique", English speakers' usual first guess, is too close to "Ricky," short for Richard, which is also used in Spanish when referring to a Ricardo. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- Is Kïkë a male or female name?
- Kïkë is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- Which countries have the most people named Kïkë?
- Mondonomo estimates about 12 thousand people named Kïkë in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kike. After it come Mexico, Colombia, Chile and United States; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Kïkë?
- In Spain, the national register counted 290 people named Kïkë, about 1 in 172 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Kïkë?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/k%C3%AFk%C3%ABThe 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, “Kïkë”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.