Given name
Kiku
“resembling a mum”
Kiku is used as a given name. One Japanese interpretation is “resembling a mum.”
Original Japanese菊
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Japanese interpretation is “resembling a mum.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Japanese.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1915. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Kiku through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 7
- 0 boys · 7 girls
- Most popular year
- 1915
- 7 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 7 in 1915. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 117 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Kiku’s family of names
In Japanese usage, Kiku is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 菊.
The ring: spellings.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
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