After the the Kikuchi clan perished, the Mera clan, a local ruling family in Higo Province, proclaimed that the Mera clan was a descendant of Shigetsugu KIKUCHI, Yoshiyuki KIKUCHI's son, and was appointed to be a member of Kotaiyoriai (a alternate member of yoriai [the top decision making organ], a family status of samurai warriors in the Edo period) in the Edo period, and in the Meiji period, was allowed to use the family name 'Kikuchi,' was conferred the baronage.
菊池氏滅亡後、肥後国豪族米良氏が菊池能運の子菊池重次の末裔を名乗り江戸時代に交代寄合に列せられ、明治時代になって菊池姓への復帰を許され男爵になっている。