Every name given to a US baby since 1880, ranked year by year — straight from Social Security Administration birth records. 105,966 names · 375,362,447 births · public domain.

Kikuye

#25,454 most common girls' name of all time · #41,321 across all names · 0% male / 100% female · used 1916–1931

Rank among girls
#25,454
Rank overall
#41,321 of 105,966
First appeared
1916
Years on the list
12 of 146
All-time
95
Since 2016
0
Peak year
1922 #2,770
Best rank
#2,770 1922
Girls Boys peak 13/yr
1920

Kikuye first appears in 1916. That's the first year it was given to at least 5 US babies, which is the threshold below which the SSA withholds a name.

Year by year

YearGirlsBoysTotalRank
1931 5 — 5 #4,742
1928 5 — 5 #5,129
1925 8 — 8 #3,961
1924 7 — 7 #4,300
1923 10 — 10 #3,325
1922 13 — 13 #2,770
1921 9 — 9 #3,621
1920 9 — 9 #3,576
1919 11 — 11 #2,995
1918 6 — 6 #4,668
1917 6 — 6 #4,466
1916 6 — 6 #4,348