Gái

given name · Latin script

Meaning: girls and women

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Gái is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • SISlovenia1 in 263K(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 346K
  • SESweden1 in 444K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

962 people, 2020

Record sources
29 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 263K (inferred from the name graph)

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)

girls and women

Cited for this meaning 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 29 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Gái 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.

Where Gái is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States9621 in 346K861Gai29
SE Sweden231 in 444K23—5
PL Poland191 in 2M16—1
SI Slovenia81 in 263K9——
MD Moldova11 in 3.4M1——
LV Latvia11 in 1.9M1—1

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).

Other names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Gái is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Australia, United States, United Kingdom, Malaysia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Gai, Ģai, Gaí, Gaï, Gài

  • Russian surname81 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, United States, Türkiye

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

    Also written Гай, Гаи, Хай, Guy, Хадж

  • Romanian name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Gai

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Gai

31 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Gái under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Gái mean, and where does it come from?
girls and women Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
Is Gái a male or female name?
Gái is a female 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.
In which country does Gái have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 962 people named Gái, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gai.
Where is Gái most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Gái 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 Gái?
In the United States, the national register counted 962 people named Gái in 2020, about 1 in 346 thousand residents.

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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, “Gái”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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