Kalai — #8628 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Kalai

The Social Security Administration has registered 227 babies named Kalai between 1998 and 2024, spanning 27 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Kalai currently holds the #8628 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2000, when 14 babies received it in a single year. Kalai is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 67 additional births since 1991.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kalai performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 100 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Kalai shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Hawaii, which accounts for 91 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Kalai in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kalai 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 227 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.