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Kai
Pronounced /kaɪ/
Rank in 2024
#1,132
Born in 2024
213
Peak year
2021 · #768
Origin
Germanic
Also recorded for boys:4,276 in 2024 (#76)
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 213 girls were named Kai, about 1 in every 7,574.
- It peaked in 2021 with 371 babies, ranked #768.
- It first shows up in the records in 1953.
- 8,243 girls have been named Kai since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Kai per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 0Greatest1901–27
- 0Silent1928–45
- <0.1Boomers1946–64
- <0.1Gen X1965–80
- <0.1Millennials1981–96
- 0.1Gen Z1997–12
- 0.2Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Silent: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Boomers: 77 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Gen X: 551 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Millennials: 856 babies, 0.03 per 1,000. Gen Z: 3,014 babies, 0.10 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 3,745 babies, 0.18 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
Taken into regular use in the 1990s, with earlier popularity peaks in Scandinavia and Germany. The medieval Danish Kaj is possibly of Roman origin, Latinized as Caius, like the rare medieval English male given name Kay. The German Kai may also derive from a West Frisian pet form of Gerard, Cornelius, Nicholas, or Kampe "warrior". In the U.S. Kai has also been explained as Hawaiian kai (“sea”).
- A unisex given name from the Germanic languages, of modern usage.
- (rare) A female given name of modern usage.
- Origin
- Germanic
- Say it
- /kaɪ/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Kai, CC BY-SA 4.0.