Meaning not yet researched.
Khai: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 175 in 2025. Its best rank was #724 in 2023.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #724 in 2023; #1,179 in 2025. About 85% of babies named Khai in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,179 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2023, at #724.
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Khai: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 175 boys in 2025. Peak: #724 in 2023 · most boys in one year: 367 (2023).
In 2025, 175 US boys were named Khai, making it the 1,179th most common boys’ name of the year, down 232 places from #947 in 2024. That is 67 fewer than the 242 boys named Khai in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #724, reached in 2023. That year also had the most boys given the name: 367. For comparison, it was #1,487 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 32 US girls were named Khai, making it the 4,410th most common girls’ name of the year, down 798 places from #3,612 in 2024. That is 11 fewer than the 43 girls named Khai in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #3,612, reached in 2024. That year also had the most girls given the name: 43. For comparison, it was #5,221 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Khai in 48 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1977 with 5 babies. In all, 3,670 US babies have been given the name, 13% of them girls and 87% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 1,613 babies named Khai.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,011 US boys were named Khai; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 367. In 2025 that was about 1 in 9,760 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Khai ranked highest in Massachusetts in 2025, at #751 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Kha are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Kha (93).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Khai in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 37 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts | 6 | #751 | — |
| Florida | 19 | #791 | #939 |
| Louisiana | 5 | #846 | #902 |
| North Carolina | 10 | #847 | — |
| Arizona | 6 | #894 | — |
| Colorado | 5 | #910 | — |
| Michigan | 7 | #956 | — |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,046 | #1,312 |
| California | 19 | #1,102 | #1,290 |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,112 | — |
| Texas | 19 | #1,152 | #1,415 |
| New York | 10 | #1,172 | #1,967 |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,175 | #1,106 |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,210 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 32 | #4,410 | 175 | #1,179 |
| 2024 | 43 | #3,612 | 242 | #947 |
| 2023 | 32 | #4,416 | 367 | #724 |
| 2022 | 35 | #4,157 | 278 | #866 |
| 2021 | 22 | #5,662 | 221 | #994 |
| 2020 | 21 | #5,757 | 145 | #1,269 |
| 2019 | 19 | #6,301 | 153 | #1,236 |
| 2018 | 20 | #6,147 | 168 | #1,147 |
| 2017 | 23 | #5,595 | 136 | #1,328 |
| 2016 | 16 | #7,435 | 126 | #1,395 |
| 2015 | 26 | #5,221 | 112 | #1,487 |
| 2014 | 17 | #7,158 | 119 | #1,419 |
| 2013 | 19 | #6,596 | 71 | #1,955 |
| 2012 | 15 | #8,031 | 65 | #2,100 |
| 2011 | 11 | #10,084 | 73 | #1,915 |
| 2010 | 20 | #6,515 | 65 | #2,085 |
| 2009 | 15 | #8,255 | 53 | #2,426 |
| 2008 | 12 | #9,797 | 43 | #2,812 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,493 | 44 | #2,745 |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,497 | 51 | #2,431 |
| 2005 | 12 | #9,179 | 36 | #2,932 |
| 2004 | 8 | #12,211 | 48 | #2,364 |
| 2003 | 6 | #14,841 | 47 | #2,299 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,668 | 34 | #2,794 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,777 | 35 | #2,718 |
| 2000 | — | — | 22 | #3,710 |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,550 | 22 | #3,535 |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,783 | 17 | #4,116 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,429 | 23 | #3,221 |
| 1996 | — | — | 20 | #3,486 |
| 1995 | — | — | 20 | #3,383 |
| 1994 | — | — | 17 | #3,835 |
| 1993 | — | — | 20 | #3,318 |
| 1992 | — | — | 7 | #7,078 |
| 1991 | — | — | 6 | #7,803 |
| 1990 | — | — | 14 | #4,091 |
| 1989 | — | — | 12 | #4,414 |
| 1988 | — | — | 10 | #4,617 |
| 1987 | — | — | 5 | #7,600 |
| 1986 | — | — | 8 | #5,117 |
| 1985 | — | — | 8 | #4,943 |
| 1984 | — | — | 6 | #5,997 |
| 1983 | — | — | 5 | #6,807 |
| 1982 | — | — | 7 | #5,333 |
| 1981 | — | — | 9 | #4,350 |
| 1980 | — | — | 9 | #4,338 |
| 1979 | — | — | 5 | #6,575 |
| 1977 | — | — | 5 | #6,371 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).