Chai
About 647 American babies have been named Chai since 1977, most of them around 1993. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 10,695th. About 630 Chais are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 23.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Chai boys named Chai
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 647
- Estimated living today
- 630
- Median age today
- 23
- Peak year
- 1993
- Best rank
- 3,819th
- Rank in 2025
- 10,695th
- First recorded
- 1977
- Girls / boys
- 263 / 384
How old the living Chais are
born that year still alive today
Of the 647 babies given the name since 1977, about 630 are alive — 98 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2002 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Chais
- Chai Hansen (born 1989)Australian actor
- Chai Biao (born 1990)Chinese badminton player
- Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi (born 1979)American film director
- Chai Jing (born 1976)Chinese television presenter
People named Chai with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Chai is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Chai is most concentrated in California (8.9×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1993
The most popular boys’ names the year Chai peaked:
Chai elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Chai +1 spelling | 120 | 2,077th |
| England and Wales boys | Chai | 32 | 2,837th |
| England and Wales girls | Chai | 12 | 2,746th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Related names
Chai against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.