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Khai

#1,179 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Khai has been given to 3,670 babies in the U.S. since 1977. In 2025 it ranked #1,179 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 367 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 87% boys, 13% girls all-time.

Babies named Khai, 2025

1 in 18,900

Khai over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Khai over time

In 2025, Khai went to 15% girls and 85% boys.

19772025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Khai: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Khai means

Khai is a given name.

The naming story behind Khai

Wikidata records Khai as a given name. The entity identifier is Q97751645, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,184 boys were recorded with the name Khai between 1977 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 367 in 2023; its best national rank was #724 in 2023.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,269 in 2020 to #1,179 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,487 in 2015 to #1,179 in 2025.

In the United States, 486 girls were recorded with the name Khai between 1997 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 43 in 2024; its best national rank was #3,612 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #5,753 in 2020 to #4,409 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #5,219 in 2015 to #4,409 in 2025.

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 Khai?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 18,900
175 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 9,760
0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,179
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
13,132 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Khai 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 2025 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 5003%

Put another way: gather 13,132 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Khai. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Khais were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Khai was born before 2018 — so the typical Khai is around 7 today.

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
44.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
91.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,184
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 44.8% of all recorded uses (1,428).

Is Khai 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
−232
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+90
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+308
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.56×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
47.7%
Peak was 2023 (367)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#724
2023

Spellings of Khai

Khai is not the most common spelling — Chad is, with 45.0% against Khai's 0.60%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Khai is used — boys

Across 2016–2025, Khai was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 3,704 boys, against 1 in 8,620 across all states with data. It was least common in Kentucky (1 in 33,333).

327 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Louisiana1 in 3,704
  2. 2Georgia1 in 4,545
  3. 3Florida1 in 5,263
  4. 4Oklahoma1 in 5,882
  5. 5Virginia1 in 5,882
  6. 6Maryland1 in 6,250
  7. 7Pennsylvania1 in 7,143
  8. 8Illinois1 in 7,692

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.

Where Khai is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Khai was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,355,071 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Florida1 in —
  3. 3Louisiana1 in —
  4. 4Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Khai has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Khai around the world

Where Khai 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
    1996–2025
    #1,406
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2006–2025
    #762
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2022–2024
    #655
    in 2024
  • Canada
    2001–2024
    #1,105
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1979–2013
    #754
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Khai

People whose public names include Khai, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Khai by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,179
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 90
Best rank ever
#724
2023
Peak year
2023
367 that year
First recorded
1977
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,184
Count in 2025
175

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#4,409
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,344
Best rank ever
#3,612
2024
Peak year
2024
43 that year
First recorded
1997
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
486
Count in 2025
32

Names similar to Khai

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

KhariKhazaShaiKhaledKhangKhanKhalifThaiKhaliKhalidKhamariKhalebKhaliqKhaleelKharyKhairiKhaziChaiKhalilKhaosKhadenKhaniKhairKhamani

Names with a curve like Khai

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Khai, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Khai

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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