Kikue

girls:

297 births since 1906

#5419 (5th percentile)

overall:

297 births since 1906

#7442 (4th percentile)

Popularity Trends

The name Kikue is the #7,442 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 297 recorded births since 1906. This represents the 3.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 3.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,419 (5.2% percentile) for all time with 297 births since 1906.

Kikue first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1906 (first recorded for girls in 1906). Birth data for Kikue is available in 21 out of the 26 years between 1906 and 1931. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.

For girls, Kikue reached its peak popularity in 1920, achieving the 3.3% percentile (ranked #588) with 20 births per million. The name was most common in 1906, with 22 births per million (ranked 0.6% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1931.

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kikue".

1906 1931 19061931

Key Statistics

Total Births
297
Peak Births
25
Peak Year
1920
First Recorded
1906
Peak Percentile
3.3%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#588
Current Rank
Female statistics

How to Pronounce Kikue

Our model has identified 13 different pronunciations for the name Kikue. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.

Our model is 17.9% confident that Kikue is pronounced as KEE-kue, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is KEE-kue-ay, at 15.4% confidence, with 3 syllables.

KEE-kue (2 syllables)
17.9% confidence
K IY1 K UW0
KEE-kue-ay (3 syllables)
15.4% confidence
K IY1 K UW0 EY0
kih-KUE-eh (3 syllables)
15.4% confidence
K IH0 K UW1 EH0
kee-KUE-ay (3 syllables)
12.8% confidence
K IY0 K UW1 EY0
kee-KUE-eh (3 syllables)
7.7% confidence
K IY0 K UW1 EH0
KIH-kue-eh (3 syllables)
7.7% confidence
K IH1 K UW0 EH0
kih-KUE-ay (3 syllables)
5.1% confidence
K IH0 K UW1 EY0
KIHK-way (2 syllables)
5.1% confidence
K IH1 K W EY0
KEE-kue-ee (3 syllables)
2.6% confidence
K IY1 K UW0 IY0
KIH-kue (2 syllables)
2.6% confidence
K IH1 K UW0
KEEK-way (2 syllables)
2.6% confidence
K IY1 K W EY0
kihk-WAY (2 syllables)
2.6% confidence
K IH0 K W EY1
kee-KUE-ee (3 syllables)
2.6% confidence
K IY0 K UW1 IY0

Possible Additional Pronunciations

If none of the pronunciations above sound right to you, could you please check whether any of these related pronunciations should be applied to the name Kikue? These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Kikue. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Kikue, please vote using the thumbs up button.

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like K IY1 K UW0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.

© 2025 NamePlay.org

Made with ❤️ by Aaron J Becker