Loai
Loai was last recorded in 2023, when 11 babies were given it; 62 Americans have been recorded with it between 1996 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Loai by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Loai?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #7,551, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
12 babies in 2021, the peak
Loai peaked in 2021, when 12 boys were given it, #6,938 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 11 | #7,551 | 6.4 |
| 2022 | 10 | #8,090 | 5.7 |
| 2021 | 12 | #6,938 | 6.9 |
| 2020 | 11 | #7,304 | 6.4 |
| 2017 | 6 | #11,614 | 3.2 |
| 2016 | 7 | #10,312 | 3.7 |
| 1996 | 5 | #9,928 | 2.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Loai a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Loai has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 7 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Loai: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Loai, and how old are they?
An estimated 61 Americans named Loai and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 185 people named Loai (10 women and girls, 175 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 21 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8.8 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.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 39,433 babies since 1880, Loai is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 551 babies recorded by SSA was a Loai (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Loai
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 Loai and names like it
- Compare Loai and LouieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sLoai peaked in 2021.
- The top names of 2021The year the most babies were named Loai.
- Names starting with LMost given first.