Jåï
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Jåï is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: festival; religious feast day.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 7.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 9.9K
- USUnited States1 in 2Kas Jay
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Jåï itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 382 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 7.3K (inferred from the name graph)
164,097 named Jay, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Australia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Jai in US United States, AU Australia, MY Malaysia and 2 more and Joy in BD Bangladesh.
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)
festival; religious feast day
Sources 2
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Trask, Etymological Dictionary of Basque (2008 posthumous draft)
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jåï 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 | — | 164,097as Jay | 1 in 2K | 160K | Jai | 382 |
| BD Bangladesh | #135 | ≈9,200 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Joy | 92 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈5,100 est. | ≈1 in 46K | listed | Jai | 35 |
| AU Australia | #795 | ≈3,500 est. | ≈1 in 7.3K | 112 | Jai | 174 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 9.9K | — | Jai | 40 |
| SE Sweden | — | 1,721as Joy | 1 in 5.9K | 1.7K | — | 10 |
| GY Guyana | #858 | 664as Joy | 1 in 1.1K | 664 | Jai | 3 |
164,097 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020, counting the spelling jay. 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; NSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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 Jåï mean, and where does it come from?
- festival; religious feast day Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Trask, Etymological Dictionary of Basque (2008 posthumous draft).
- Is Jåï a male or female name?
- Jåï 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 Jåï have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 164 thousand people named Jay, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Jåï?
- In the United States, the national register counted 164,097 people named Jay in 2020, about 1 in 2.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Jåï compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Jåï is the 135th most common given name of 29,323 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/j%C3%A5%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, “Jåï” — the 135th most common given name in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.