Chai
- #8,362 for girls in 2025, 12 births
- #10,695 for boys in 2025, 6 births
- Given to boys 59.4% of the time
Showing
- Peak · boys
- 1984 · 13 births
- Debut · boys
- 11 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 384since 1981
Chai 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 | #10,695 | 6 |
| 2024 | #11,122 | 8 | #5,904 | 15 |
| 2023 | #8,486 | 12 | #8,255 | 9 |
| 2022 | #10,383 | 9 | #8,990 | 8 |
| 2021 | #6,967 | 16 | #9,714 | 7 |
| 2020 | #6,629 | 17 | #10,605 | 6 |
| 2019 | — | #8,889 | 8 | |
| 2018 | #10,545 | 9 | #9,670 | 7 |
| 2017 | — | #9,696 | 7 | |
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| 2014 | #11,931 | 8 | — | |
| 2013 | #13,150 | 7 | #8,789 | 8 |
| 2012 | — | #9,709 | 7 | |
| 2011 | #14,824 | 6 | #8,767 | 8 |
| 2010 | #16,992 | 5 | #12,231 | 5 |
| 2009 | #13,704 | 7 | #8,985 | 8 |
| 2008 | #15,405 | 6 | #11,037 | 6 |
| 2007 | #11,630 | 9 | #7,094 | 11 |
| 2006 | #15,152 | 6 | #6,904 | 11 |
| 2005 | #13,010 | 7 | #7,640 | 9 |
| 2004 | #16,099 | 5 | #7,536 | 9 |
| 2003 | #13,844 | 6 | #7,245 | 9 |
| 2002 | #12,187 | 7 | #8,456 | 7 |
| 2001 | #13,521 | 6 | #5,142 | 14 |
| 2000 | #9,874 | 9 | #8,209 | 7 |
| 1999 | — | #8,704 | 6 | |
| 1998 | #12,426 | 6 | #9,631 | 5 |
| 1997 | #8,334 | 10 | #7,281 | 7 |
| 1996 | #11,807 | 6 | #6,496 | 8 |
| 1995 | #10,514 | 7 | #5,124 | 11 |
| 1994 | #8,122 | 10 | #3,911 | 16 |
| 1993 | #13,442 | 5 | #3,819 | 16 |
| 1992 | #11,738 | 6 | #4,872 | 11 |
| 1991 | #10,271 | 7 | #4,005 | 14 |
| 1990 | — | #4,673 | 11 | |
| 1989 | #10,847 | 6 | #4,811 | 10 |
| 1988 | — | #4,450 | 10 | |
| 1987 | #9,825 | 6 | #3,731 | 12 |
| 1986 | — | #4,853 | 8 | |
| 1985 | — | #4,052 | 10 | |
| 1984 | — | #3,270 | 13 | |
| 1983 | — | #4,907 | 7 | |
| 1982 | #10,517 | 5 | #5,619 | 6 |
| 1981 | #9,110 | 6 | #3,601 | 11 |
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First appearance
1981
The first year at least five boys were named Chai! It came in at #3,601, and was given to 11 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 2014–2016, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Chai is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more boys named Chai in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Chai
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
- 4,791 spots since 2024 (#5,904 → #10,695)
- 90 spots since 2020 (#10,605 → #10,695)
Rise & fade · boys
3 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1981
- Peaked 1984 at #3,270 (13 births)
- Births halved by 1998, 14 yrs later
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 114,859
- Highest: 1 in 114,859 boys born in 2024 were named Chai (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 284,679 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #3,270 in 1984, was only 1 in 138,834 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 1990s
- 27.3% of all boys named Chai (105) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2025
- Mostly boys until 2024, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 87 | #3,270 (1984) | #4,366 |
| 1990s | 105 | #3,819 (1993) | #5,852 |
| 2000s | 91 | #5,142 (2001) | #7,825 |
| 2010s | 50 | #8,767 (2011) | #9,679 |
| 2020s | 51 | #5,904 (2024) | #9,027 |
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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