Given name & surname
Kike
“the ruler of the estate”
In Spanish use, Kike is a diminutive of Enrique. One Spanish interpretation is “the ruler of the estate.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
In Spanish use, Kike is a diminutive of Enrique. One Spanish interpretation is “the ruler of the estate.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Kike is a diminutive of Enrique. Enrique comes from Latin, and ultimately from Old High German.
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How it developed
In Spanish usage, Kike is a diminutive of Harry. In Spanish usage, Kike is a diminutive of Enrique.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2020. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Kike through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 12
- 12 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2025
- 7 babies
- 2025
- 7
- #10,234 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 7 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 10,234 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Kike’s family of names
In Spanish usage, Kike is a diminutive of Harry. In Spanish usage, Kike has a conventional naming counterpart in the English form Hank. In Spanish usage, Kike is a diminutive of Enrique.
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Around the world
Kike has relatives in 5 languages.
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Nicknames & forms 7
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Kike
- Kike GarcíaSpanish footballerborn 1989
- Kike SolaSpanish footballerborn 1986
- Kike BarjaSpanish footballerborn 1997
- Kike SalasSpanish footballerborn 2002
- Kike MaílloSpanish Catalan film director and screenwriterborn 1975
- Kike BoulaEquatorial Guinean association football playerborn 1993
- KikeSpanish futsal playerborn 1978
- Kike BurgosSpanish footballerborn 1971
- Kike MateoSpanish footballerborn 1979
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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