Dai — boys' name

What the Data Says About Dai

The Social Security Administration has registered 122 babies named Dai between 1976 and 2015, spanning 40 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Dai currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2015. The name reached its historical peak in 1985, when 12 babies received it in a single year. Dai is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 85 additional births since 1978.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Dai performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 49 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Dai shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Dai in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Dai 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 122 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.