Gaï
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Gaï is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Herefs; Renfrews. locative name from Gailey (Staffs).
- SISlovenia1 in 263K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 346K
- CDCongo - Kinshasa≈1 in 395K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 140 (measured from records)
- 1 in 263K (inferred from the name graph)
962 people, 2020
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, FR France, CD Congo - Kinshasa.
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).
Sources 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 26 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gaï 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 962 | 1 in 346K | 861 | Gai | 23 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 395K | — | Gai | 2 |
| SE Sweden | 23 | 1 in 444K | 23 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 19 | 1 in 2M | 16 | — | — |
| FR France | ≈17 est. | ≈1 in 4M | 27 | Gai | 140 |
| SI Slovenia | 8 | 1 in 263K | 9 | — | — |
| LV Latvia | 1 | 1 in 1.9M | 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; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); 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); 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Gaï 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 Gaï a male or female name?
- Gaï is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Gaï have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 962 people named Gaï, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gai.
- Where is Gaï most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Gaï 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 Gaï?
- In the United States, the national register counted 962 people named Gaï 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/ga%C3%AFThe 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, “Gaï”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.