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Mai
Rank in 2024
#3,228
Born in 2024
49
Peak year
1990 · #793
Origin
Not recorded
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 49 girls were named Mai, about 1 in every 32,922.
- It peaked in 1990 with 254 babies, ranked #793.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 5,622 girls have been named Mai since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Mai 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
- <0.1Gen Z1997–12
- <0.1Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 209 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Silent: 147 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Boomers: 145 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Gen X: 385 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Millennials: 2,903 babies, 0.10 per 1,000. Gen Z: 1,188 babies, 0.04 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 603 babies, 0.03 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
Chinese surname with several origins: from Mandarin 麥 / 麦 (“wheat”), from Mandarin and Cantonese 買 / 买 (maai5, “buy”) Cantonese form of 米 (see Mi). Romanized from 马 (mǎ) (see Ma) Romanized from 梅 (méi) (see Mei) As a German surname, variant of May.
- A female given name, a rare spelling variant of Mae/May, or borrowed from Scandinavia, with the same ultimate origin.
- Origin
- Not recorded
- Say it
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From Wiktionary’s entry for Mai, CC BY-SA 4.0.