Khai
Khai is given to both girls and boys: 32 girls and 175 boys were given it in 2025 (#4,409 among girls’ names and #1,179 among boys’, #2,161 among all names counting both); 3,670 Americans have been recorded with it since 1977 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,630 Americans named Khai and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 4 and 15.
Khai dropped 232 places in 2025, the #3 drop among the boys’ top 1,000 of 2024.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Khai by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Khai?
#1,179 among boys’ names, 2025
Khai rose from #1,487 in 2015 to #1,179 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.06 to 0.10 per 1,000.
399 babies in 2023, the peak
Khai peaked in 2023, when 399 babies were given it (367 boys, #724 among boys’ names). The 207 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 52% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 32 | #4,409 | 175 | #1,179 |
| 2024 | 43 | #3,612 | 242 | #947 |
| 2023 | 32 | #4,413 | 367 | #724 |
| 2022 | 35 | #4,155 | 278 | #866 |
| 2021 | 22 | #5,658 | 221 | #994 |
| 2020 | 21 | #5,753 | 145 | #1,269 |
| 2019 | 19 | #6,297 | 153 | #1,236 |
| 2018 | 20 | #6,143 | 168 | #1,147 |
| 2017 | 23 | #5,591 | 136 | #1,328 |
| 2016 | 16 | #7,432 | 126 | #1,395 |
Every recorded year (48)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 26 | #5,219 | 112 | #1,487 |
| 2014 | 17 | #7,156 | 119 | #1,419 |
| 2013 | 19 | #6,592 | 71 | #1,954 |
| 2012 | 15 | #8,027 | 65 | #2,099 |
| 2011 | 11 | #10,080 | 73 | #1,914 |
| 2010 | 20 | #6,512 | 65 | #2,084 |
| 2009 | 15 | #8,251 | 53 | #2,425 |
| 2008 | 12 | #9,793 | 43 | #2,811 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,489 | 44 | #2,745 |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,493 | 51 | #2,430 |
| 2005 | 12 | #9,174 | 36 | #2,928 |
| 2004 | 8 | #12,205 | 48 | #2,360 |
| 2003 | 6 | #14,834 | 47 | #2,295 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,662 | 34 | #2,790 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,770 | 35 | #2,713 |
| 2000 | under 5 | 22 | #3,704 | |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,543 | 22 | #3,530 |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,776 | 17 | #4,112 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,424 | 23 | #3,216 |
| 1996 | under 5 | 20 | #3,480 | |
| 1995 | under 5 | 20 | #3,377 | |
| 1994 | under 5 | 17 | #3,829 | |
| 1993 | under 5 | 20 | #3,312 | |
| 1992 | under 5 | 7 | #7,071 | |
| 1991 | under 5 | 6 | #7,796 | |
| 1990 | under 5 | 14 | #4,085 | |
| 1989 | under 5 | 12 | #4,408 | |
| 1988 | under 5 | 10 | #4,612 | |
| 1987 | under 5 | 5 | #7,593 | |
| 1986 | under 5 | 8 | #5,112 | |
| 1985 | under 5 | 8 | #4,938 | |
| 1984 | under 5 | 6 | #5,993 | |
| 1983 | under 5 | 5 | #6,803 | |
| 1982 | under 5 | 7 | #5,331 | |
| 1981 | under 5 | 9 | #4,348 | |
| 1980 | under 5 | 9 | #4,337 | |
| 1979 | under 5 | 5 | #6,573 | |
| 1977 | under 5 | 5 | #6,369 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Khai a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 3,670 Americans recorded as Khai, 13% are girls and 87% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Khai: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Khai, and how old are they?
3,630 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,670 Americans ever recorded as Khai. The median Khai alive today is 8 years old; half are between 4 and 15.
The 2020 Census counted 3,860 people named Khai (464 women and girls, 3,396 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,076 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.9 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 18 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 166 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 828 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,620 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Khai born?
The states with the most babies named Khai are California, Texas and Florida, with 44% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 19 | #1,102 | 0.8× |
| Texas | 19 | #1,152 | 0.7× |
| Florida | 19 | #791 | 1.1× |
| New York | 10 | #1,172 | 0.5× |
| North Carolina | 10 | #847 | 0.6× |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,046 | 1.1× |
| Michigan | 7 | #956 | 0.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,175 | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,210 | 0.5× |
| Arizona | 6 | #894 | 0.3× |
Where Khai is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Khai is most over-represented in Florida: since 1977 it was given 1.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Khai with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 85,685 babies since 1880, Khai is the second most given (4.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 207 of their 4,329 babies (4.8%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Khai
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Khai and names like it
- Compare Khai and KaiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sKhai peaked in 2023.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Khai since 1910.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Khai.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Khai alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.