Gai

Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

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

• a separate given name19 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, India, China, Malaysia

  Also written Gái, Gäī, Ǧáï, Gäi, Ğái

• Portuguese given name5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Philippines, China

  Also written Gái, Gaĭ, Ġāï

• a separate name4 spellings in the group

  Also written Gaĭ, Gái, Gaï

• French given name7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, Congo - Kinshasa, United States, China

  Also written Gaï, Gái, Gaī, Gäî

56 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.

Gai is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Italian, forma apocopada de Gaio

  as a name·Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

• In cdo, to explain, to settle, to unloose W to disperse, to cut up, scattered

  as a word·Dictionary of the Foochow Dialect

• In cdo, a boundary, a limit, a step, a hundred million, (gai ¥)

  as a word·Dictionary of the Foochow Dialect

• In cdo, mone is x melodious sound, whistling of the wind

  as a word·Dictionary of the Foochow Dialect

• In Russian, var of Gaii.

  as a word·A Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

• Tamara Stillb. 1959USnot in their usual nameAmerican organist, conductor, composer, and financial advisor
• Gai Brodtmannb. 1963AUAustralian politician
• Gai Adb. 1963ILIsraeli writer
• Kerry ChantAUnot in their usual nameAustralian medical officer
• Lyn G. CookAUnot in their usual nameAustralian botanist and entomologist

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).

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

What does the name Gai mean, and where does it come from?

hemp-nettle Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).

How do you pronounce Gai?

In Vietnamese /ɣaːj˧˧/ (Wiktionary).

Is Gai a male or female name?

Gai is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).

In which country does Gai have the most bearers?

In the United States, the national register counted about 962 people named Gai, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gai.

How common is the name Gai?

In the United States, the national register counted 962 people named Gai in 2020, about 1 in 346 thousand residents.