Cai
- #8,362 for girls in 2025, 12 births
- #2,108 for boys in 2025, 69 births
- Given to boys 74.6% of the time
Showing
- Peak · boys
- 2022 · 108 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,450since 1989
Cai over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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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 | #8,362 | 12 | #2,108 | 69 |
| 2024 | #6,394 | 18 | #1,902 | 83 |
| 2023 | #5,126 | 25 | #1,851 | 86 |
| 2022 | #5,465 | 23 | #1,611 | 108 |
| 2021 | #5,237 | 24 | #1,799 | 87 |
| 2020 | #3,778 | 38 | #2,113 | 66 |
| 2019 | #4,773 | 28 | #2,150 | 66 |
| 2018 | #5,785 | 21 | #2,147 | 65 |
| 2017 | #5,191 | 25 | #2,049 | 68 |
| 2016 | #4,250 | 34 | #1,828 | 82 |
| 2015 | #5,288 | 25 | #1,815 | 82 |
| 2014 | #5,993 | 21 | #2,000 | 71 |
| 2013 | #6,017 | 21 | #2,299 | 55 |
| 2012 | #5,710 | 23 | #2,358 | 54 |
| 2011 | #5,063 | 27 | #2,950 | 39 |
| 2010 | #11,246 | 9 | #3,014 | 38 |
| 2009 | #7,679 | 16 | #2,894 | 41 |
| 2008 | #8,109 | 15 | #3,005 | 39 |
| 2007 | #10,818 | 10 | #3,591 | 29 |
| 2006 | #10,611 | 10 | #4,105 | 23 |
| 2005 | #8,883 | 12 | #3,389 | 29 |
| 2004 | #7,828 | 14 | #3,456 | 27 |
| 2003 | #11,325 | 8 | #3,528 | 25 |
| 2002 | #10,246 | 9 | #4,044 | 20 |
| 2001 | #15,352 | 5 | #4,476 | 17 |
| 2000 | #11,801 | 7 | #4,573 | 16 |
| 1999 | — | #8,704 | 6 | |
| 1998 | — | #6,843 | 8 | |
| 1997 | #9,017 | 9 | #7,281 | 7 |
| 1996 | #11,807 | 6 | #7,971 | 6 |
| 1995 | — | #7,792 | 6 | |
| 1994 | — | #6,372 | 8 | |
| 1993 | — | #5,771 | 9 | |
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| 1990 | — | #4,993 | 10 | |
| 1989 | — | #7,905 | 5 | |
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First appearance
1989
The first year at least five boys were named Cai! It came in at #7,905, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1991–1992, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Cai is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Indiana | #844 | 6 | 1 in 5,277 |
| Missouri | #869 | 5 | 1 in 5,562 |
| Florida | #1,478 | 7 | 1 in 13,648 |
| Texas | #2,080 | 7 | 1 in 25,007 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
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Momentum · boys
Holding steady
- 206 spots since 2024 (#1,902 → #2,108)
- 5 spots since 2020 (#2,113 → #2,108)
- 293 spots since 2015 (#1,815 → #2,108)
Rise & fade · boys
33 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1989
- Peaked 2022 at #1,611 (108 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 16,167
- Highest: 1 in 16,167 boys born in 2022 were named Cai (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 24,755 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 2010s
- 42.8% of all boys named Cai (620) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 1998
- Mostly girls until 1997, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 5 | #7,905 (1989) | #7,905 |
| 1990s | 60 | #4,993 (1990) | #6,966 |
| 2000s | 266 | #2,894 (2009) | #3,706 |
| 2010s | 620 | #1,815 (2015) | #2,261 |
| 2020s | 499 | #1,611 (2022) | #1,897 |
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.
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