Kīkī
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Kīkī 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: 4,352 people, counted by the Meertens NVB. 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.
- NLNetherlands1 in 4K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 25K
- SESweden1 in 93K
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.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 137 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.0K (inferred from the name graph)
4,352 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
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, CM Cameroon 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.
Cited for this meaning 3
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Kīkī 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | — | 4,352 | 1 in 4K | 4.3K | Kiki | 19 |
| US United States | — | 2,413 | 1 in 138K | 2.2K | Kiki | 52 |
| DK Denmark | — | 237 | 1 in 25K | 237 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | — | 110 | 1 in 93K | 110 | — | 1 |
| DZ Algeria | — | ≈49 est. | ≈1 in 957K | — | Kiki | 6 |
| FI Finland | — | 37 | 1 in 151K | 58 | — | — |
| CM Cameroon | #872 | — | — | — | Kiki | 5 |
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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Kīkī is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Hawaiian, to shoot
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kīkī 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 Kīkī a male or female name?
- Kīkī 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.
- Which countries have the most people named Kīkī?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 4.4 thousand people named Kīkī, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kiki. After it come United States, Denmark, Sweden and Algeria; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Kīkī most common?
- Kīkī is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 4.0 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Kīkī?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 4,352 people named Kīkī, about 1 in 4.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Kīkī compared with other names?
- In Cameroon, Kīkī is the 872nd most common given name of 9,064 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Kīkī?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/k%C4%ABk%C4%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, “Kīkī” — ranked 472nd in the Netherlands (Meertens NVB). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.