Kiki
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A gathering of friends for the purpose of gossiping and chit-chat
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kˈiki/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kiki is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 4K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 138K
- HKHong Kong≈1 in 1.7K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- Sources
- 332 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.7K (inferred from the name graph)
4,352 people
Highest-authority source
Hong Kong, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A gathering of friends for the purpose of gossiping and chit-chat.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
How Kiki is read(measured from records)
Kiki is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Indonesian39%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Kiki in Indonesian.
- English25%
A gathering of friends for the purpose of gossiping and chit-chat.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Egyptian; the castor plant
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- French8.2%
throat
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kiki 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 | #822 | 4,352 | 1 in 4K | 4.3K | Kiki | 82 |
| HK Hong Kong | — | ≈4,300 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Kiki | 21 |
| FR France | — | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 24K | 23 | — | 4 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 88K | — | Kiki | 29 |
| US United States | — | 2,413 | 1 in 138K | 2.2K | Kiki | 332 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Kiki | 32 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈470 est. | ≈1 in 19K | 12 | Kiki | 25 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Kiki | 21 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)
Kiki is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In mqs, to bite
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In beu, small
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In asl, to collapse in an epileptic fit; to shudder (of animals)
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Kiki Cuylerb. 1898USAmerican baseball player and coach
- Kicki Håkanssonb. 1929SEnot in their usual nameSwedish beauty pageant contestant and first Miss World winner (1929–2024)
- Kiki Dimoulàb. 1931GRGreek poet (1931-2020)
- Kiki Smithb. 1954USAmerican sculptor and printmaker (born 1954)
- Kiki Sauerb. 1965DEGerman musician
- Kizito Musampab. 1977CDnot in their usual nameDutch footballer
- Kiki Suginob. 1984JPJapanese actress
- Kiki Bertensb. 1991NLDutch tennis player
- Kiki Layneb. 1991USAmerican actress
- Roméo Elvisb. 1992BEnot in their usual nameBelgian rapper
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 55 sources across 30 countries.
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kiki mean, and where does it come from?
- A gathering of friends for the purpose of gossiping and chit-chat. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Kiki?
- In the etymology graph, Angela, Christine and Chris are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Kristina and Kirsten.
- Is Kiki a male or female name?
- Kiki is a female 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.
- In which country does Kiki have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 4.4 thousand people named Kiki, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kiki.
- How do you pronounce Kiki?
- A machine transcription gives /kˈiki/ (IPA) for Indonesian.
- How common is the name Kiki?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 4,352 people named Kiki, about 1 in 4.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Kiki compared with other names?
- In the Netherlands, Kiki is the 822nd most common given name of 101,916 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Kiki?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kikiThe 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, “Kiki” — the 822nd most common given name in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.