In 2025, 8 US boys were named Xai, making it the 9,664th most common boys’ name of the year, down 1,933 places from #7,731 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 11 boys named Xai in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #3,967, reached in 1990. The most boys given the name in a single year was 15, in 1991. For comparison, it was #13,946 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Fewer than five US girls were named Xai in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #9,093, reached in 1981. The most girls given the name in a single year was 7, in 1991. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Xai in 21 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1981 with 7 babies. In all, 182 US babies have been given the name, 11% of them girls and 89% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 86 babies named Xai.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 48 US boys were named Xai; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 11. In 2025 that was about 1 in 213,510 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.