My name is Ciara, and Kiki has been my petname for the whole of my life! When I looked up my name Ciara (keer-ah) KiKi was associated as being the common nickname. It's so cute and simple don't you think?
The name is very pretty. I live in Croatia and Kiki is used in Croatia as a nickname for Kristijan (Christian) so there is a lot of Kikis in Croatia (my dad too, but his name is Dragan). In Croatia the nickname for Kristijan is not Chris or Cris.
Kiki is on of Little Bill's friends in the children's television series Little Bill. She is very fond of flowers, loves nature, and her hobby is origami.
I always heard this name as a nickname for Kiara. And, by the way, I can see a Grandma Kiki. She'd be one of those fun grannies who makes lots of fudge and swing dances on Thursdays.
Bad name, it is only good for like the first 18 years then it becomes bad, just like most of the popular names that were wildly invented. Parents should go to the older names because those are the ones you can have from start to finish.
I've always loved the name Kiki, but I've never met anyone who has it. I think it's really cute, and if I ever get a female cat or dog then I'll name them that. :) Of course, I might be biased since I'm a huge Miyazaki fan (director of Kiki's Delivery Service, a favorite childhood movie of mine), but anyway. Yeah. Love this name.
This name is used in Greece as a diminutive of Kyriaki or, less commonly, Aggeliki/Angeliki. Pronounced kee-KEE, it 'used to be quite common, when Greek women were using nicknames and diminutives. Today it is not that much in use.' [noted -ed]
Haha. I watched Kiki's Delivery Service with a friend of mine a while ago, and we always made fun of it, so now if I ever met anyone with that name, I wouldn't be able to talk to them without cracking up.
I know a lady named Vasiliki who is called Kiki. She is Greek-American and accents the nickname on the first syllable. I don't know if this nickname would be used for this name in Greece.
I love this as a nickname for names such as Kirsten, Christine and Katherine.
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I'm half Samoan and my Samoan family calls me this. It means kick in Samoan but they use it as my name. It's not my real name but my mum just calls me this. My dad however is European and calls me by my proper name Didi, which comes from the Dutch side of my family. Yeah I don't really like Kiki. I can only think of Kiki Palmer :/ Yeah my mum used to call me Didi like everyone else. But when she's mad at me (which is very often now haha) she yells KIKI. And it's said like Gee-ki. All my cousins call me Kiki. Ugh.
I'm sorry, but Kiki is such a trashy, horrible name. As a nickname, it can be cute for the first 6 years, but on anyone older than about 12 it makes me think of a ditz who well... let's just say, can't keep their legs together.
Plus it was used on the tv show Dollhouse as the name of an airheaded college girl sleeping with her professor, played by Eliza Dushku and Enver Gjokaj (his portrayal of Kiki is about the only redeeming part of this name; it's hilarious. And no, 'his' wasn't a typo. It makes sense in context.)