Khai
#4,352 for girls in 2025, 32 births · #1,176 for boys in 2025, 175 births
Given to boys 86.8% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2023 · 367 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 3,184since 1977
Khai over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #4,352 | 32 | #1,176 | 175 |
| 2024 | #3,575 | 43 | #947 | 242 |
| 2023 | #4,363 | 32 | #723 | 367 |
| 2022 | #4,108 | 35 | #865 | 278 |
| 2021 | #5,573 | 22 | #991 | 221 |
| 2020 | #5,667 | 21 | #1,262 | 145 |
| 2019 | #6,176 | 19 | #1,234 | 153 |
| 2018 | #6,010 | 20 | #1,141 | 168 |
| 2017 | #5,517 | 23 | #1,321 | 136 |
| 2016 | #7,230 | 16 | #1,389 | 126 |
| 2015 | #5,127 | 26 | #1,481 | 112 |
| 2014 | #6,987 | 17 | #1,414 | 119 |
| 2013 | #6,462 | 19 | #1,942 | 71 |
| 2012 | #7,804 | 15 | #2,091 | 65 |
| 2011 | #9,723 | 11 | #1,905 | 73 |
| 2010 | #6,382 | 20 | #2,069 | 65 |
| 2009 | #8,058 | 15 | #2,401 | 53 |
| 2008 | #9,476 | 12 | #2,788 | 43 |
| 2007 | #10,129 | 11 | #2,721 | 44 |
| 2006 | #8,237 | 14 | #2,398 | 51 |
| 2005 | #8,883 | 12 | #2,902 | 36 |
| 2004 | #11,624 | 8 | #2,344 | 48 |
| 2003 | #13,844 | 6 | #2,269 | 47 |
| 2002 | #11,108 | 8 | #2,755 | 34 |
| 2001 | #12,056 | 7 | #2,681 | 35 |
| 2000 | — | #3,640 | 22 | |
| 1999 | #12,688 | 6 | #3,480 | 22 |
| 1998 | #11,138 | 7 | #4,019 | 17 |
| 1997 | #9,017 | 9 | #3,160 | 23 |
| 1996 | — | #3,406 | 20 | |
| 1995 | — | #3,303 | 20 | |
| 1994 | — | #3,751 | 17 | |
| 1993 | — | #3,246 | 20 | |
| 1992 | — | #6,670 | 7 | |
| 1991 | — | #7,271 | 6 | |
| 1990 | — | #3,971 | 14 | |
| 1989 | — | #4,271 | 12 | |
| 1988 | — | #4,450 | 10 | |
| 1987 | — | #6,951 | 5 | |
| 1986 | — | #4,853 | 8 | |
| 1985 | — | #4,698 | 8 | |
| 1984 | — | #5,561 | 6 | |
| 1983 | — | #6,238 | 5 | |
| 1982 | — | #5,003 | 7 | |
| 1981 | — | #4,153 | 9 | |
| 1980 | — | #4,134 | 9 | |
| 1979 | — | #6,056 | 5 | |
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| 1977 | — | #5,845 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Khai! It came in at #5,845, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1977–1979, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Khai
- 229 spots since 2024 (#947 → #1,176)
- 86 spots since 2020 (#1,262 → #1,176)
- 305 spots since 2015 (#1,481 → #1,176)
- Biggest jump: 271 spots in 2021 (#1,262 → #991)
- Biggest drop: 229 spots in 2025 (#947 → #1,176)
- Debuted 1977
- Peaked 2023 at #723 (367 births)
- Births halved by 2025, 2 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 4 yrs · run 2021–2024
- Highest: 1 in 4,661 boys born in 2023 were named Khai (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 9,760 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 44.8% of all boys named Khai (1,428) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 10 | #5,845 (1977) | #5,951 |
| 1980s | 79 | #4,134 (1980) | #5,031 |
| 1990s | 166 | #3,160 (1997) | #4,228 |
| 2000s | 413 | #2,269 (2003) | #2,690 |
| 2010s | 1,088 | #1,141 (2018) | #1,599 |
| 2020s | 1,428 | #723 (2023) | #994 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Khai in 2020
Top girls' names in 2020
Top boys' names in 2020
More about 2020
girls
1,616,549 girls got a published name in 2020; 1 in 76,979 of them was named Khai, which outranked 67.7% of the 17,527 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #5,487Zahari22
- #5,487Zooey22
- #5,487Zyrah22
- #5,667Khai21
- #5,667Abeeha21
- #5,667Addley21
- #5,667Adelita21
- #5,850Aaralyn20
- #5,850Addilee20
- #5,850Adel20
Tied with 182 names at #5,667; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,726,076 boys got a published name in 2020; 1 in 11,904 of them was named Khai, which outranked 91.0% of the 14,060 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,259Cristopher146
- #1,259Kymani146
- #1,259Perry146
- #1,262Khai145
- #1,262Akeem145
- #1,262Akiva145
- #1,262Azai145
- #1,271Aubrey144
- #1,271Ishmael144
- #1,271Jessiah144
Tied with 8 names at #1,262; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 380Vivaan#875 → #1,255
- ↓ 282Alexzander#890 → #1,172
- ↓ 268Reyansh#806 → #1,074
- ↓ 266Javion#949 → #1,215
- ↓ 224Kenny#862 → #1,086
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.