Given name & surname
Ki
“one who is reborn”
Ki is used as a given name and a surname. One Korean interpretation is “one who is reborn.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Korean interpretation is “one who is reborn.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Korean.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1946. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Ki through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 535
- 426 boys · 109 girls
- Most popular year
- 2005
- 23 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −42%
- Cooling
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2023. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 8 in 1992. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 3,725 as a first name in 2020; 1,010 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Ki’s family of names
Ki has a related form in Kiko. In Greek usage, Ki as a surname is a transliteration of Κι.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 3
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
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