Wai — boys' name

What the Data Says About Wai

The Social Security Administration has registered 174 babies named Wai between 1970 and 1995, spanning 26 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Wai currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 1995. The name reached its historical peak in 1977, when 15 babies received it in a single year. Wai is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 88 additional births since 1971.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Wai performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 96 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Wai shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 70 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Wai in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Wai 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 174 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.