Hái
given name · Latin script
Meaning: to pluck a plant or piece of fruit for later processing or consumption
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Hái is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Vietnam than in any other country, where it is the 16th most common given name.
- VNVietnam≈1 in 210(inferred from the name graph)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 6.1K
- SGSingapore≈1 in 10K
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 Hái itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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.
- Vietnam (inferred from the name graph)
- #769 (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 263 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 214 (inferred from the name graph)
≈470,000 people, est.
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Vietnam, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Hai in VN Vietnam, US United States, Haji in PK Pakistan, TZ Tanzania, Hacı in TR Türkiye and ሀጂ in ET Ethiopia.
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)to pluck a plant or piece of fruit for later processing or consumption
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Hái 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VN Vietnam | #16 | ≈470,000 est. | ≈1 in 214 | listed | Hai | 241 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈230,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | listed | Haji | 66 |
| TR Türkiye | #65 | ≈92,000 est. | ≈1 in 925 | — | Hacı | 78 |
| TZ Tanzania | — | ≈90,000 est. | ≈1 in 763 | 32 | Haji | 33 |
| ET Ethiopia | — | ≈71,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | — | ሀጂ | 19 |
| US United States | — | 11,511 | 1 in 29K | 13K | Hai | 263 |
| AL Albania | — | 2,215as Haxhi | 1 in 1.4K | 2.2K | — | — |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; INEC Special Gazette 2021 — 2020 parliamentary election results; INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts). 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Hái is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Chinese, Hanyu Pinyin reading of 咲 /笑
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In non, accusative plural of hár
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In kix, agentive nominaliser
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Hai Ruib. 1514CNChinese politician (1514-1587)
- Hai Xiab. 1972CNChinese news anchor
- Hai Qingb. 1978CNChinese actress
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 Hái mean, and where does it come from?
- to pluck a plant or piece of fruit for later processing or consumption Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Hái a male or female name?
- Hái 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.
- Which countries have the most people named Hái?
- Mondonomo estimates about 473 thousand people named Hái in Vietnam, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hai. After it come Pakistan, Türkiye, Tanzania and Ethiopia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Hái?
- In the United States, the national register counted 11,511 people named Hái in 2020, about 1 in 29 thousand residents.
- How common is Hái compared with other names?
- In Vietnam, Hái is the 16th most common given name of 73,918 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/h%C3%A1iThe 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, “Hái” — the 16th most common given name in Vietnam. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.