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
- Peak · boys
- 2023 · 367 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 3,184since 1977
Khai 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 | #4,352 | 32 | #1,176 | 175 |
| 2024 | #3,575 | 43 | #947 | 242 |
| 2023 | #4,363 | 32 | #723 | 367 |
| 2022 | #4,108 | 35 | #865 | 278 |
| 2021 | #5,573 | 22 | #991 | 221 |
| 2020 | #5,667 | 21 | #1,262 | 145 |
| 2019 | #6,176 | 19 | #1,234 | 153 |
| 2018 | #6,010 | 20 | #1,141 | 168 |
| 2017 | #5,517 | 23 | #1,321 | 136 |
| 2016 | #7,230 | 16 | #1,389 | 126 |
| 2015 | #5,127 | 26 | #1,481 | 112 |
| 2014 | #6,987 | 17 | #1,414 | 119 |
| 2013 | #6,462 | 19 | #1,942 | 71 |
| 2012 | #7,804 | 15 | #2,091 | 65 |
| 2011 | #9,723 | 11 | #1,905 | 73 |
| 2010 | #6,382 | 20 | #2,069 | 65 |
| 2009 | #8,058 | 15 | #2,401 | 53 |
| 2008 | #9,476 | 12 | #2,788 | 43 |
| 2007 | #10,129 | 11 | #2,721 | 44 |
| 2006 | #8,237 | 14 | #2,398 | 51 |
| 2005 | #8,883 | 12 | #2,902 | 36 |
| 2004 | #11,624 | 8 | #2,344 | 48 |
| 2003 | #13,844 | 6 | #2,269 | 47 |
| 2002 | #11,108 | 8 | #2,755 | 34 |
| 2001 | #12,056 | 7 | #2,681 | 35 |
| 2000 | — | #3,640 | 22 | |
| 1999 | #12,688 | 6 | #3,480 | 22 |
| 1998 | #11,138 | 7 | #4,019 | 17 |
| 1997 | #9,017 | 9 | #3,160 | 23 |
| 1996 | — | #3,406 | 20 | |
| 1995 | — | #3,303 | 20 | |
| 1994 | — | #3,751 | 17 | |
| 1993 | — | #3,246 | 20 | |
| 1992 | — | #6,670 | 7 | |
| 1991 | — | #7,271 | 6 | |
| 1990 | — | #3,971 | 14 | |
| 1989 | — | #4,271 | 12 | |
| 1988 | — | #4,450 | 10 | |
| 1987 | — | #6,951 | 5 | |
| 1986 | — | #4,853 | 8 | |
| 1985 | — | #4,698 | 8 | |
| 1984 | — | #5,561 | 6 | |
| 1983 | — | #6,238 | 5 | |
| 1982 | — | #5,003 | 7 | |
| 1981 | — | #4,153 | 9 | |
| 1980 | — | #4,134 | 9 | |
| 1979 | — | #6,056 | 5 | |
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| 1977 | — | #5,845 | 5 | |
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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 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Massachusetts#690 · 1 in 4,504
- Louisiana#775 · 1 in 3,826
- Florida#777 · 1 in 5,028
- North Carolina#825 · 1 in 5,147
- Arizona#844 · 1 in 5,454
Best ever in a state: #374 in Mississippi, 2023.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts | #690 | 6 | 1 in 4,504 |
| Louisiana | #775 | 5 | 1 in 3,826 |
| Florida | #777 | 19 | 1 in 5,028 |
| North Carolina | #825 | 10 | 1 in 5,147 |
| Arizona | #844 | 6 | 1 in 5,454 |
| Colorado | #849 | 5 | 1 in 5,370 |
| Michigan | #905 | 7 | 1 in 5,742 |
| Georgia | #990 | 8 | 1 in 6,278 |
| Tennessee | #1,040 | 5 | 1 in 7,354 |
| California | #1,085 | 19 | 1 in 9,235 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,094 | 6 | 1 in 8,710 |
| New York | #1,119 | 10 | 1 in 8,442 |
| Illinois | #1,133 | 6 | 1 in 8,259 |
| Texas | #1,135 | 19 | 1 in 9,213 |
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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 Khai
- 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)
- Debuted 1977
- Peaked 2023 at #723 (367 births)
- Births halved by 2025, 2 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 4 yrs · run 2021–2024
- 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%)
- 44.8% of all boys named Khai (1,428) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 10 | #5,845 (1977) | #5,951 |
| 1980s | 79 | #4,134 (1980) | #5,031 |
| 1990s | 166 | #3,160 (1997) | #4,228 |
| 2000s | 413 | #2,269 (2003) | #2,690 |
| 2010s | 1,088 | #1,141 (2018) | #1,599 |
| 2020s | 1,428 | #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 2025
Top girls' names in 2025
Top boys' names in 2025
More about 2025
girls
1,607,267 girls got a published name in 2025; 1 in 50,227 of them was named Khai, which outranked 74.8% of the 17,297 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880).
- #4,265Yazmine33
- #4,265Zahava33
- #4,265Zelia33
- #4,352Khai32
- #4,352Aaryn32
- #4,352Adalind32
- #4,352Addelynn32
- #4,460Addeline31
- #4,460Amilah31
- #4,460Andy31
Tied with 107 names at #4,352; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,708,076 boys got a published name in 2025; 1 in 9,760 of them was named Khai, which outranked 91.6% of the 13,930 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880).
- #1,169Korbin176
- #1,169Mekhi176
- #1,169Mikael176
- #1,176Khai175
- #1,176Arham175
- #1,176Ash175
- #1,176Deandre175
- #1,183Merrick174
- #1,183Oren174
- #1,183Steele174
Tied with 6 names at #1,176; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.