Kikine
surname · Latin script
Kikine is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Africa than in any other country.
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 180Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- FRFrance≈1 in 4.2Mfew records
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- South Africa (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 13 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 184K (inferred from the name graph)
≈350 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: reference-verified
South Africa, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Kikine is found
(measured from records)Kikine 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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZA South Africa | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 184K | Kikine | 3 |
| FR France | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 4.2M | Kikine | 13 |
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.
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
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Kikine?
- Mondonomo estimates about 348 people named Kikine in South Africa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kikine. After it come France; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Kikine?
- Mondonomo estimates about 350 people in South Africa have Kikine as their first surname, about 1 in 184 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
What do you want to know about Kikine?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kikineThe 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, “Kikine”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.