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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
| 1978 | — | — | ||
| 1977 | — | #5,845 | 5 | |
| 1976 | — | — | ||
| 1975 | — | — | ||
| 1974 | — | — | ||
| 1973 | — | — | ||
| 1972 | — | — | ||
| 1971 | — | — | ||
| 1970 | — | — | ||
| 1969 | — | — | ||
| 1968 | — | — | ||
| 1967 | — | — | ||
| 1966 | — | — | ||
| 1965 | — | — | ||
| 1964 | — | — | ||
| 1963 | — | — | ||
| 1962 | — | — | ||
| 1961 | — | — | ||
| 1960 | — | — | ||
| 1959 | — | — | ||
| 1958 | — | — | ||
| 1957 | — | — | ||
| 1956 | — | — | ||
| 1955 | — | — | ||
| 1954 | — | — | ||
| 1953 | — | — | ||
| 1952 | — | — | ||
| 1951 | — | — | ||
| 1950 | — | — | ||
| 1949 | — | — | ||
| 1948 | — | — | ||
| 1947 | — | — | ||
| 1946 | — | — | ||
| 1945 | — | — | ||
| 1944 | — | — | ||
| 1943 | — | — | ||
| 1942 | — | — | ||
| 1941 | — | — | ||
| 1940 | — | — | ||
| 1939 | — | — | ||
| 1938 | — | — | ||
| 1937 | — | — | ||
| 1936 | — | — | ||
| 1935 | — | — | ||
| 1934 | — | — | ||
| 1933 | — | — | ||
| 1932 | — | — | ||
| 1931 | — | — | ||
| 1930 | — | — | ||
| 1929 | — | — | ||
| 1928 | — | — | ||
| 1927 | — | — | ||
| 1926 | — | — | ||
| 1925 | — | — | ||
| 1924 | — | — | ||
| 1923 | — | — | ||
| 1922 | — | — | ||
| 1921 | — | — | ||
| 1920 | — | — | ||
| 1919 | — | — | ||
| 1918 | — | — | ||
| 1917 | — | — | ||
| 1916 | — | — | ||
| 1915 | — | — | ||
| 1914 | — | — | ||
| 1913 | — | — | ||
| 1912 | — | — | ||
| 1911 | — | — | ||
| 1910 | — | — | ||
| 1909 | — | — | ||
| 1908 | — | — | ||
| 1907 | — | — | ||
| 1906 | — | — | ||
| 1905 | — | — | ||
| 1904 | — | — | ||
| 1903 | — | — | ||
| 1902 | — | — | ||
| 1901 | — | — | ||
| 1900 | — | — | ||
| 1899 | — | — | ||
| 1898 | — | — | ||
| 1897 | — | — | ||
| 1896 | — | — | ||
| 1895 | — | — | ||
| 1894 | — | — | ||
| 1893 | — | — | ||
| 1892 | — | — | ||
| 1891 | — | — | ||
| 1890 | — | — | ||
| 1889 | — | — | ||
| 1888 | — | — | ||
| 1887 | — | — | ||
| 1886 | — | — | ||
| 1885 | — | — | ||
| 1884 | — | — | ||
| 1883 | — | — | ||
| 1882 | — | — | ||
| 1881 | — | — | ||
| 1880 | — | — | ||
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 2022
Top girls' names in 2022
Top boys' names in 2022
More about 2022
girls
1,640,131 girls got a published name in 2022; 1 in 46,861 of them was named Khai, which outranked 76.9% of the 17,760 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #4,041Xara36
- #4,041Yanira36
- #4,041Zeena36
- #4,108Khai35
- #4,108Abigayle35
- #4,108Adalena35
- #4,108Adalind35
- #4,202Abagail34
- #4,202Adaeze34
- #4,202Adali34
Tied with 93 names at #4,108; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,746,008 boys got a published name in 2022; 1 in 6,281 of them was named Khai, which outranked 94.0% of the 14,333 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.