Jaï
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Jaï 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.
- GYGuyana1 in 5.1K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 50K
- SESweden1 in 173K
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
- 70 (measured from records)
- 1 in 5.1K (inferred from the name graph)
6,708 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Jai in US United States, BH Bahrain.
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 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jaï 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.
6,708 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; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); 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
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Jaï 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 Jaï a male or female name?
- Jaï is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Jaï have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 6.7 thousand people named Jaï, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jai.
- Where is Jaï most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Jaï is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 5.1 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Jaï?
- In the United States, the national register counted 6,708 people named Jaï in 2020, about 1 in 50 thousand residents.
- How common is Jaï compared with other names?
- In Bahrain, Jaï is the 403rd most common given name of 6,583 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Jaï?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ja%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, “Jaï” — the 403rd most common given name in Bahrain. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.