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
- 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
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 | #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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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 2019
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Georgia#1,297 · 1 in 10,388
- Illinois#1,317 · 1 in 11,503
- Florida#1,565 · 1 in 15,794
- Texas#2,129 · 1 in 29,089
- California#2,212 · 1 in 33,859
Best ever in a state: #760 in Indiana, 2008.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Georgia | #1,297 | 5 | 1 in 10,388 |
| Illinois | #1,317 | 5 | 1 in 11,503 |
| Florida | #1,565 | 6 | 1 in 15,794 |
| Texas | #2,129 | 6 | 1 in 29,089 |
| California | #2,212 | 6 | 1 in 33,859 |
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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.
See more about Cai
- 206 spots since 2024 (#1,902 → #2,108)
- 5 spots since 2020 (#2,113 → #2,108)
- 293 spots since 2015 (#1,815 → #2,108)
- Debuted 1989
- Peaked 2022 at #1,611 (108 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- 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%)
- 42.8% of all boys named Cai (620) were born in this decade
- 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.
Cai in 2019
Top girls' names in 2019
Top boys' names in 2019
More about 2019
girls
1,678,366 girls got a published name in 2019; 1 in 59,942 of them was named Cai, which outranked 73.5% of the 18,024 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #4,653Weslie29
- #4,653Yaneth29
- #4,653Yashvi29
- #4,773Cai28
- #4,773Adalena28
- #4,773Adanna28
- #4,773Aeryn28
- #4,909Adrina27
- #4,909Aili27
- #4,909Airabella27
Tied with 135 names at #4,773; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,794,216 boys got a published name in 2019; 1 in 27,185 of them was named Cai, which outranked 84.8% of the 14,133 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,129Revan67
- #2,129Theron67
- #2,129Ulices67
- #2,150Cai66
- #2,150Blair66
- #2,150Blayne66
- #2,150Fulton66
- #2,170Abelardo65
- #2,170Aj65
- #2,170Darrius65
Tied with 19 names at #2,150; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.