Tiku
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Tiku is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ethiopia than in any other country.
- ETEthiopia≈1 in 65Kas ትኩ(inferred from the name graph)
- FIFinland1 in 929K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Tiku itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Ethiopia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 56 (measured from records)
- 1 in 929K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,700 named ትኩ, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled ትኩእ in ET Ethiopia and Teku in US United States.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tiku 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.
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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Assemblee Nationale du Cameroun — sitting-MP roster, 10eme legislature (2020-2025). 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)
Tiku is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Finnish, unpleasant smoke or fumes in a smoke sauna
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In xbr, ticking sound (as of a watch)
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In xbr, sound of cracking or tapping
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Indonesian, nonstandard form of tikung
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Estonian, genitive singular of tikk
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In poz-wmp-pro, bent, crooked
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)
- Archis Tikub. 1977GBBritish musician
- Kosuke Chikub. 1999JPnot in their usual nameJapanese association football player
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 22 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 209 | #93,963 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 153 | #21,336 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 134 | #127,494 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 108 | #3,508 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- Is Tiku a male or female name?
- Tiku 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.
- In which country does Tiku have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.7 thousand people named ትኩ in Ethiopia, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Tiku most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Tiku is densest in Finland — about 1 in 929 thousand people — even though Ethiopia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Tiku?
- In Finland, the national register counted 6 people named Tiku, about 1 in 929 thousand residents.
- How common is Tiku compared with other names?
- In Ethiopia, Tiku is the 777th most common given name of 31,392 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Tiku?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tikuThe 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, “Tiku” — the 777th most common given name in Ethiopia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.