Cai
Cai is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 83 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 830.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 2022108 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1989
- 1,862people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,381 boys have been named Cai in the United States since 1989, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2022, with 108 births.
It has never been more used than now: its record year is 2022, within the last few years of data.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2016, and the 2010s alone account for 45%.
Cai is used for both sexes: 26% of its bearers are girls (481), most of them born around 2020.
By decade
In 2022, its biggest year
Cai was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 2022 were Liam, Noah, Oliver, James and Elijah. See all of 2022.
Names that rose and fell with Cai
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Ilyaspeak 2024
- Yahyapeak 2024
- Zakariyapeak 2024
- Adonaipeak 2024
- Kyrenpeak 2024
- Ahmirpeak 2022
- Abdielpeak 2019
- Zavianpeak 2020
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.