# Cai (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/cai/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys and girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 1,945 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 1,450 / 495 (25% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 2,757, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 27 | 5,091 |
| 2012 | 23 | 5,744 |
| 2013 | 21 | 6,057 |
| 2014 | 21 | 6,026 |
| 2015 | 25 | 5,322 |
| 2016 | 34 | 4,271 |
| 2017 | 25 | 5,211 |
| 2018 | 21 | 5,821 |
| 2019 | 28 | 4,791 |
| 2020 | 38 | 3,789 |
| 2021 | 24 | 5,263 |
| 2022 | 23 | 5,496 |
| 2023 | 25 | 5,155 |
| 2024 | 18 | 6,445 |
| 2025 | 12 | 8,457 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 39 | 2,954 |
| 2012 | 54 | 2,361 |
| 2013 | 55 | 2,305 |
| 2014 | 71 | 2,003 |
| 2015 | 82 | 1,816 |
| 2016 | 82 | 1,830 |
| 2017 | 68 | 2,052 |
| 2018 | 65 | 2,149 |
| 2019 | 66 | 2,152 |
| 2020 | 66 | 2,118 |
| 2021 | 87 | 1,803 |
| 2022 | 108 | 1,612 |
| 2023 | 86 | 1,852 |
| 2024 | 83 | 1,905 |
| 2025 | 69 | 2,113 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 3 | 3,795 |
| 2003 | 3 | 4,373 |
| 2004 | 3 | 4,598 |
| 2005 | 5 | 3,382 |
| 2006 | 3 | 5,061 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 107 | 375 |
| 2012 | 86 | 460 |
| 2013 | 98 | 412 |
| 2014 | 85 | 463 |
| 2015 | 91 | 445 |
| 2016 | 79 | 512 |
| 2017 | 74 | 526 |
| 2018 | 62 | 590 |
| 2019 | 53 | 655 |
| 2020 | 64 | 568 |
| 2021 | 56 | 650 |
| 2022 | 53 | 656 |
| 2023 | 44 | 754 |
| 2024 | 56 | 664 |
| 2025 | 52 | 687 |

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.