Takai
#3,227 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Takai has been given to 505 babies in the U.S. since 1996. In 2025 it ranked #3,227 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 37 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 90% boys, 10% girls all-time.
Babies named Takai, 2025
1 in 89,600
Takai over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Takai over time
In 2025, Takai went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
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.
How common is Takai?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 89,600
- 37 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 46,200
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #3,227
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 62,106 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Takai sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 62,106 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Takai. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Takais were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Takai was born before 2014 — so the typical Takai is around 11 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 36.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 97.2%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 457
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 36.8% of all recorded uses (168).
Is Takai 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
- +1,077
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +2,716
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +2,726
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 2.47×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 100.0%
- Peak was 2025 (37)
- Years since peak
- Peaking now
- At its all-time high
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 22.5% average annual change
Spellings of Takai
Takai is not the most common spelling — Kai is, with 47.9% against Takai's 0.31%.
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 Takai is used
Across 1910–2025, Takai was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,381,736 across all states with data. It was least common in Florida (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Florida1 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. Takai has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Takai around the world
Where Takai 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.
- South Australia2010–2010#754in 2010
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Takai by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Takai
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Takai
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.