Gài
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Gài is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 962 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2020. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Herefs; Renfrews. locative name from Gailey (Staffs).
- SISlovenia1 in 263K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 346K
- SESweden1 in 444K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 29 (measured from records)
- 1 in 263K (inferred from the name graph)
962 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Slovenia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Gai in US United States.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Main GB Location (1881): Herefs; Renfrews. locative name from Gailey (Staffs).
Cited for this meaning 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
- Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
- Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)
- Trask, Etymological Dictionary of Basque (2008 posthumous draft)
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Gài counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
962 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); e-services.md — living population register; PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Huang Gaib. 145CNHan dynasty general under warlord Sun Quan
- Wu Gaib. 1125Song dynasty person (CBDB = 17703)
- Xie GaiMing dynasty person CBDB = 289219
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Gài mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): Herefs; Renfrews. locative name from Gailey (Staffs). Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos and 3 other sources.
- Is Gài a male or female name?
- Gài is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- Which countries have the most people named Gài?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 962 people named Gài, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gai. After it come Sweden, Poland, Slovenia and Moldova; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Gài most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Gài is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 263 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Gài?
- In the United States, the national register counted 962 people named Gài in 2020, about 1 in 346 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/g%C3%A0iThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Gài” — ranked 12788th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2020). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.