Phái

given name · Latin script

Meaning: a school; a sect (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Phái is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 181 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2020.

  • USUnited States1 in 1.8M(measured from records)

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. 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.

United States (measured from records)

181 people, 2020

Record sources
11 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 1.8M (inferred from the name graph)

United States

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Phai in US United States, IN India, GB United Kingdom.

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)

a school; a sect

Cited for this meaning 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Phái 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.

Where Phái is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States1811 in 1.8M92Phai11
IN India——35Phai1
GB United Kingdom———Phai3

181 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; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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 names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Phái is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Malaysia, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Phai, Phải, Phaiุ, Phåi

  • French given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States

    Also written Phai, Phaï, Phải

  • Japanese given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Japan

    Also written Phai

  • a separate name8 spellings in the group

    Also written Phai, Phải, Phãi

  • Khmer given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Malaysia, India, Philippines

    Also written Phai, Phải, Pha̱i

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Phai

  • Vietnamese given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Vietnam, United States, Malaysia, Indonesia

    Languages: Vietnamese, Malay, Indonesian

    Also written Phai, Phải

4 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.

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Phái under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Phái mean, and where does it come from?
a school; a sect Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
Is Phái a male or female name?
Phái 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 Phái have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 181 people named Phái, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled phai.
Where is Phái most common?
Phái is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.8 million people carrying it.
How common is the name Phái?
In the United States, the national register counted 181 people named Phái in 2020, about 1 in 1.8 million residents.

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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, “Phái” — ranked 40852nd in the United States (Census Bureau, 2020). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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