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Hai

Boys' name

Sea, ocean

Hai has been given to 588 babies in the U.S. since 1975. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1983, with 44 recorded.

Babies named Hai, 2015

1 in 463,000

Hai over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Hai: meaning, origin, and history

Sea, ocean

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Hai means

Hai means “sea, ocean”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Hai is used in Chinese.

Another recorded pronunciation is /xaɪ̯/ for Hai.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 567 boys were recorded with the name Hai between 1975 and 2015. Its highest annual count was 44 in 1983; its best national rank was #1,434 in 1983.

In the United States, 21 girls were recorded with the name Hai between 1982 and 1984. Its highest annual count was 8 in 1984; its best national rank was #7,626 in 1984.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Hai?

Hai had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2015, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2015
1 in 463,000
8 of 3,701,574 births
Among boys only
1 in 240,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2015
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
320,718 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Hai sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2015 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 320,718 children born in 2015 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hai. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Hais were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Hai was born before 1986 — so the typical Hai is around 39 today.

Median birth year
1986
About 39 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
51.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
33.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
567
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 51.0% of all recorded uses (289).

Is Hai rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1983 (44)
Years since peak
42
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
39.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,434
1983

Where Hai is used

Across 1910–2025, Hai was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 216,929 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Louisiana1 in 100,000
  3. 3Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Hai has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Hai around the world

Where Hai ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2000–2025
    #5,137
    in 2025
  • France
    1958–2025
    #4,124
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1992–2007
    #2,479
    in 2007
  • South Australia
    1970–2012
    #771
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Hai by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,434
1983
Peak year
1983
44 that year
First recorded
1975
Last recorded
2015
All-time count
567
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#7,626
1984
Peak year
1984
8 that year
First recorded
1982
Last recorded
1984
All-time count
21
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Hai

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Hai

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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