Tai

Where Tai comes from

The dictionaries list Tai as a given name — a female given name from Chinese — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Chinese
  • 1 syllable
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1922
    First appearance
    #4,307 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1992
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  3. 1998
    Tai Baribo born
    Israeli footballer
  4. 2003
    Peak, #1,149
    131 babies named Tai — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2004
    Tai Abed born
    Israeli association footballer
  6. 2015
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #2,276.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Chinese.
Namesakes
  • Tai Baribo · Israeli footballer, born 1998
  • Tai Abed · Israeli association footballer, born 2004
  • Tai Hara · Australian actor, born 1990
  • Tai Odiase · Puerto Rican basketball player, born 1995
  • Tai Felton · American football player, born 2003

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.