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Kai
Pronounced /kaɪ/
Rank in 2024
#76
Born in 2024
4,276
Peak year
2022 · #59
Origin
Germanic
Also recorded for girls:213 in 2024 (#1,132)
1880 to 2024
RisingIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 4,276 boys were named Kai, about 1 in every 401.
- It peaked in 2022 with 5,366 babies, ranked #59.
- It first shows up in the records in 1926.
- 66,409 boys 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.
- <0.1Greatest1901–27
- <0.1Silent1928–45
- <0.1Boomers1946–64
- <0.1Gen X1965–80
- <0.1Millennials1981–96
- 0.6Gen Z1997–12
- 2.0Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 6 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Silent: 11 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Boomers: 292 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Gen X: 878 babies, 0.03 per 1,000. Millennials: 2,366 babies, 0.08 per 1,000. Gen Z: 19,247 babies, 0.61 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 43,609 babies, 2.01 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.