Kiko
Kiko is given to both girls and boys: 12 girls and 10 boys were given it in 2025 (#8,621 among girls’ names and #7,973 among boys’, #9,803 among all names counting both); 282 Americans have been recorded with it since 1979 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kiko by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Kiko mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Kiko is “a female given name from Japanese.”
Borrowed from Japanese きこ (Kiko).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Kiko?
#7,973 among boys’ names, 2025
Kiko rose from #9,199 in 2015 to #7,973 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 4.2 to 5.9 per million.
33 babies in 2021, the peak
Kiko peaked in 2021, when 33 babies were given it (22 boys, #4,560 among boys’ names). The 22 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 67% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,621 | 10 | #7,973 |
| 2024 | 10 | #9,915 | 7 | #10,448 |
| 2023 | 14 | #7,841 | 14 | #6,362 |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,853 | 5 | #13,435 |
| 2021 | 11 | #9,260 | 22 | #4,560 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,633 | 6 | #11,361 |
| 2019 | under 5 | 9 | #8,569 | |
| 2018 | 9 | #11,025 | 7 | #10,256 |
| 2017 | 5 | #17,231 | 5 | #13,359 |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,350 | 6 | #11,521 |
Every recorded year (23)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | under 5 | 8 | #9,199 | |
| 2014 | 5 | #17,940 | 9 | #8,492 |
| 2013 | 6 | #15,629 | under 5 | |
| 2012 | 7 | #14,289 | under 5 | |
| 2010 | 5 | #18,506 | under 5 | |
| 2008 | 6 | #16,505 | under 5 | |
| 2006 | 5 | #18,698 | under 5 | |
| 2003 | under 5 | 5 | #11,919 | |
| 2001 | under 5 | 5 | #11,562 | |
| 1983 | under 5 | 6 | #5,888 | |
| 1981 | under 5 | 6 | #5,899 | |
| 1980 | under 5 | 12 | #3,519 | |
| 1979 | under 5 | 15 | #2,962 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Kiko a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 282 Americans recorded as Kiko, 44% are girls and 56% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Kiko: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kiko, and how old are they?
An estimated 277 Americans named Kiko and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 7 years old and half are between 4 and 13. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 455 people named Kiko (198 women and girls, 257 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 150 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.0 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.
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 6 names spelled alike, given to 1,269 babies since 1880, Kiko is the second most given (22% of them). In 2025 it was given to 22 of their 36 babies (61%), the 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 Kiko
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 Kiko and names like it
- Compare Kiko and KiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sKiko peaked in 2021.
- Japanese namesWiktionary’s origin for Kiko: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2021The year the most babies were named Kiko.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Kiko alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.