Tiki
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Carved talisman in humanoid form, common to the cultures of the Pacific Ocean
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/tɪki/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tiki is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Africa than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 684K(measured from records)
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 82K
- ILIsrael≈1 in 139K
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.
- South Africa (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 195 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 82K (inferred from the name graph)
≈690 people, est.
Highest-authority source
South Africa, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Carved talisman in humanoid form, common to the cultures of the Pacific Ocean.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tiki 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 | ≈690 est. | ≈1 in 82K | — | Tiki | 13 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈530 est. | ≈1 in 502K | — | Tiki | 36 |
| US United States | 486 | 1 in 684K | 387 | Tiki | 195 |
| IL Israel | ≈62 est. | ≈1 in 139K | — | Tiki | 9 |
| CA Canada | ≈57 est. | ≈1 in 660K | — | Tiki | 23 |
| AU Australia | ≈56 est. | ≈1 in 458K | 1 | Tiki | 32 |
| CH Switzerland | ≈29 est. | ≈1 in 294K | — | Tiki | 7 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈21 est. | ≈1 in 239K | — | Tiki | 23 |
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; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present). 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)
Tiki is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, weibl. Vom., Koseform von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In kr, 8. past time, the past, time previous to that of speaking; as Jcdbu tidbe, a former-day; dm tSdbs, i) people of former times; 2) people who have been here a little while ago; mdna tSabiturd, on account of the previous word
as a wordKanuri-English Vocabulary (in African Native Literature)
In Cebuano, the common house gecko (Hemidactylus frenatus)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swahili, tick mark, check mark (✓)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Nynorsk, definite singular of tik
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Artur Tikib. 1914EEEstonian teacher (1914-1992)
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 21 sources across 14 countries.
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Tiki mean, and where does it come from?
- Carved talisman in humanoid form, common to the cultures of the Pacific Ocean. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Tiki?
- A machine transcription gives /tɪki/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Tiki a male or female name?
- Tiki 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 Tiki have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 689 people named Tiki in South Africa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tiki.
- How common is the name Tiki?
- In the United States, the national register counted 486 people named Tiki in 2020, about 1 in 684 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Tiki?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tikiThe 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, “Tiki”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.