Chaî
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Chaî is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Hakka 蔡 (cài).
- USUnited States1 in 92K(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 119K
- NONorway1 in 195K
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)
- Sources
- 322 (measured from records)
- 1 in 92K (inferred from the name graph)
3,619 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Chai in MY Malaysia, US United States, CH Switzerland.
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)
From Hakka 蔡 (cài).
Sources 3
- Wiktionary
- Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
- Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)
Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Chaî 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 | — | 3,619 | 1 in 92K | 3.9K | Chai | 322 |
| IN India | — | 474 | 1 in 2.8M | 474 | — | 27 |
| ES Spain | — | 89 | 1 in 562K | 89 | — | 10 |
| BR Brazil | — | 72 | 1 in 2.9M | 72 | — | 1 |
| AR Argentina | — | 59 | 1 in 771K | 59 | — | — |
| FI Finland | — | 47 | 1 in 119K | 47 | — | 4 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 39 | 1 in 215K | 39 | Chai | 9 |
| NO Norway | — | 28 | 1 in 195K | 28 | — | 3 |
| DK Denmark | — | 12 | 1 in 489K | 12 | — | 1 |
| MY Malaysia | #138 | — | — | — | Chai | 111 |
3,619 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Chaî mean, and where does it come from?
- From Hakka 蔡 (cài). Recorded by Wiktionary and Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003) and 1 other source.
- Is Chaî a male or female name?
- Chaî 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 Chaî have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 3.6 thousand people named Chaî, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled chai.
- Where is Chaî most common?
- Chaî is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 92 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Chaî?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,619 people named Chaî in 2010, about 1 in 92 thousand residents.
- How common is Chaî compared with other names?
- In Malaysia, Chaî is the 138th most common surname of 291,743 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Chaî?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cha%C3%AEThe 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, “Chaî” — the 138th most common surname in Malaysia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.