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

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Peak · boys
2023 · 367 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
3,184
since 1977

Khai over time

girlsboys

Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201977girlsat peakboysat peak
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#4,35232#1,176175
2024#3,57543#947242
2023#4,36332#723367
2022#4,10835#865278
2021#5,57322#991221
2020#5,66721#1,262145
2019#6,17619#1,234153
2018#6,01020#1,141168
2017#5,51723#1,321136
2016#7,23016#1,389126
2015#5,12726#1,481112
2014#6,98717#1,414119
2013#6,46219#1,94271
2012#7,80415#2,09165
2011#9,72311#1,90573
2010#6,38220#2,06965
2009#8,05815#2,40153
2008#9,47612#2,78843
2007#10,12911#2,72144
2006#8,23714#2,39851
2005#8,88312#2,90236
2004#11,6248#2,34448
2003#13,8446#2,26947
2002#11,1088#2,75534
2001#12,0567#2,68135
2000—#3,64022
1999#12,6886#3,48022
1998#11,1387#4,01917
1997#9,0179#3,16023
1996—#3,40620
1995—#3,30320
1994—#3,75117
1993—#3,24620
1992—#6,6707
1991—#7,2716
1990—#3,97114
1989—#4,27112
1988—#4,45010
1987—#6,9515
1986—#4,8538
1985—#4,6988
1984—#5,5616
1983—#6,2385
1982—#5,0037
1981—#4,1539
1980—#4,1349
1979—#6,0565
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1977—#5,8455
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First appearance
1977

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.

Where Khai is popular in 1977

No state had 5 or more boys named Khai in 1977, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Khai
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 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)
Rise & fade · boys
46 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1977
  • Peaked 2023 at #723 (367 births)
  • Births halved by 2025, 2 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 4 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 4 yrs · run 2021–2024
Share of babies · boys
1 in 4,661
  • 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%)
Era · boys
The 2020s
  • 44.8% of all boys named Khai (1,428) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Never flipped
  • The majority has never changed
all girlsall boys
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1970s10#5,845 (1977)#5,951
1980s79#4,134 (1980)#5,031
1990s166#3,160 (1997)#4,228
2000s413#2,269 (2003)#2,690
2010s1,088#1,141 (2018)#1,599
2020s1,428#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 1977

boys
#5,845
5 births · 1 in 328,644 boys

Top boys' names in 1977

  1. #1Michael67,587
  2. #2Jason55,631
  3. #3Christopher46,721
  4. #4David40,515
  5. #5James40,040
  6. #6Robert34,214
  7. #7John34,195
  8. #8Brian32,492
  9. #9Matthew31,965
  10. #10Joseph26,483
  11. #5,845Khai5
More about 1977

boys

1,643,220 boys got a published name in 1977; 1 in 328,644 of them was named Khai, which outranked 14.8% of the 6,861 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Khai
  1. #5,123Zed6
  2. #5,123Zeferino6
  3. #5,123Zerick6
  4. #5,845Khai5
  5. #5,845Aashish5
  6. #5,845Abby5
  7. #5,845Abdual5

Tied with 1,016 names at #5,845; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1976
Risers
  1. ↑ 5,102Lavar#5,587 → #485
  2. ↑ 4,753Kinte#5,587 → #834
  3. ↑ 969Jedidiah#1,873 → #904
  4. ↑ 811Conor#1,748 → #937
  5. ↑ 704Amin#1,608 → #904
Fallers
  1. ↓ 427Jerimy#963 → #1,390
  2. ↓ 322Demetrios#990 → #1,312
  3. ↓ 246Nakia#790 → #1,036
  4. ↓ 244Baron#977 → #1,221
  5. ↓ 235Hakim#878 → #1,113

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1977 →