Chai — #5981 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Chai

The Social Security Administration has registered 378 babies named Chai between 1981 and 2024, spanning 44 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Chai currently holds the #5981 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1993, when 16 babies received it in a single year. Chai is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 251 additional births since 1977.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Chai performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 105 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Chai shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 55 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Chai in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Chai 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 378 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.