Kiki
Kiki was given to 13 girls in 2025, #8,114 among girls’ names; 1,137 Americans have been recorded with it since 1920 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,020 Americans named Kiki and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (90% of everyone recorded); the median is 43 years old and half are between 20 and 53.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kiki by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Kiki mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Kiki is “a pet form of several female given names beginning with K.”
/ˈkiː.kiː/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Kiki?
#8,114 among girls’ names, 2025
Kiki rose from #15,507 in 2015 to #8,114 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 3.4 to 8.1 per million.
42 babies in 1975, the peak
Kiki peaked in 1975, when 42 girls were given it, #2,078 among girls’ names. The 13 births of 2025 are 31% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #8,114 | 8.1 |
| 2024 | 13 | #8,202 | 8.0 |
| 2023 | 13 | #8,282 | 8.1 |
| 2022 | 16 | #7,131 | 9.8 |
| 2021 | 18 | #6,535 | 11.0 |
| 2020 | 17 | #6,784 | 10.5 |
| 2019 | 15 | #7,541 | 8.9 |
| 2018 | 10 | #10,207 | 5.9 |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,554 | 7.5 |
| 2016 | 14 | #8,207 | 7.9 |
Every recorded year (87)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 6 | #15,507 | 3.4 |
| 2014 | 9 | #11,478 | 5.0 |
| 2013 | 12 | #9,334 | 6.8 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,778 | 5.1 |
| 2011 | 10 | #10,815 | 5.7 |
| 2010 | 13 | #8,983 | 7.3 |
| 2009 | 14 | #8,677 | 7.6 |
| 2008 | 25 | #5,655 | 13.2 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,495 | 5.7 |
| 2006 | 17 | #7,328 | 8.9 |
| 2005 | 14 | #8,117 | 7.6 |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,585 | 6.0 |
| 2003 | 14 | #7,800 | 7.7 |
| 2002 | 16 | #6,876 | 8.9 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,781 | 3.9 |
| 2000 | 9 | #10,335 | 5.0 |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,558 | 3.4 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,714 | 5.1 |
| 1997 | 5 | #14,955 | 2.9 |
| 1996 | 12 | #7,364 | 6.8 |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,142 | 4.0 |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,164 | 3.9 |
| 1993 | 16 | #5,804 | 8.8 |
| 1992 | 7 | #11,082 | 3.8 |
| 1991 | 5 | #14,273 | 2.7 |
| 1990 | 11 | #7,588 | 5.8 |
| 1989 | 5 | #13,436 | 2.7 |
| 1988 | 13 | #6,068 | 7.3 |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,274 | 4.0 |
| 1986 | 7 | #9,019 | 4.1 |
| 1985 | 19 | #4,208 | 11.0 |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,525 | 5.9 |
| 1983 | 24 | #3,380 | 14.4 |
| 1982 | 16 | #4,613 | 9.4 |
| 1981 | 19 | #4,072 | 11.4 |
| 1980 | 22 | #3,671 | 13.3 |
| 1979 | 21 | #3,713 | 13.1 |
| 1978 | 31 | #2,714 | 20.2 |
| 1977 | 39 | #2,321 | 25.4 |
| 1976 | 38 | #2,228 | 25.9 |
| 1975 | 42 | #2,078 | 28.8 |
| 1974 | 24 | #2,950 | 16.4 |
| 1973 | 24 | #2,865 | 16.5 |
| 1972 | 14 | #4,196 | 9.2 |
| 1971 | 14 | #4,201 | 8.4 |
| 1970 | 26 | #2,741 | 14.9 |
| 1969 | 31 | #2,325 | 18.4 |
| 1968 | 12 | #4,106 | 7.3 |
| 1967 | 11 | #4,165 | 6.7 |
| 1966 | 10 | #4,323 | 5.9 |
| 1965 | 13 | #3,638 | 7.4 |
| 1964 | 10 | #4,491 | 5.3 |
| 1963 | 15 | #3,396 | 7.8 |
| 1962 | 9 | #4,704 | 4.6 |
| 1961 | 12 | #3,885 | 5.9 |
| 1960 | 11 | #4,038 | 5.4 |
| 1959 | 11 | #3,922 | 5.4 |
| 1958 | 7 | #5,148 | 3.5 |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,745 | 2.9 |
| 1956 | 7 | #5,060 | 3.5 |
| 1955 | 5 | #6,282 | 2.6 |
| 1954 | 5 | #6,177 | 2.6 |
| 1953 | 7 | #4,804 | 3.7 |
| 1952 | 11 | #3,460 | 5.9 |
| 1951 | 7 | #4,603 | 3.9 |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,694 | 2.9 |
| 1947 | 7 | #4,551 | 3.9 |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,557 | 4.8 |
| 1934 | 6 | #4,062 | 5.7 |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,674 | 4.7 |
| 1930 | 7 | #3,864 | 6.2 |
| 1929 | 6 | #4,327 | 5.4 |
| 1927 | 5 | #5,218 | 4.2 |
| 1926 | 7 | #4,078 | 5.9 |
| 1925 | 8 | #3,860 | 6.6 |
| 1923 | 5 | #5,336 | 4.1 |
| 1920 | 7 | #4,188 | 5.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kiki a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,137 Americans recorded as Kiki, 98% are girls and 2% boys. In 2025 it went to 13 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Kiki: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kiki, and how old are they?
1,020 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 90% of the 1,137 Americans ever recorded as Kiki. The median Kiki alive today is 43 years old; half are between 20 and 53.
The 2020 Census counted 2,413 people named Kiki (2,179 women and girls, 234 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 960 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.5 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 4 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 109 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 357 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 194 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 188 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 168 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 17,384 babies since 1880, Kiki is the fourth most given (6.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 13 of their 139 babies (9.4%), the third most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Kiki
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Kiki and names like it
- Compare Kiki and KiaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sKiki peaked in 1975.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kiki since 1910.
- The top names of 1975The year the most babies were named Kiki.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Kiki alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with KMost given first.