Cai — #1908 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Cai

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,381 babies named Cai between 1989 and 2024, spanning 36 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Cai currently holds the #1908 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2022, when 108 babies received it in a single year. Cai is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 481 additional births since 1996.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Cai performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 620 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Cai shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 106 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Florida and California. In total, SSA state-level files list Cai in 18 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Cai in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 1,381 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.