Pokai

given name · Latin script

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

Pokai is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Malaysia than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • MYMalaysia≈1 in 1.7M(inferred from the name graph)
  • AUAustralia≈1 in 10M
  • USUnited States≈1 in 55M

carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Malaysia (inferred from the name graph)

≈19 people, est.

Sources
25 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 1.7M (inferred from the name graph)

Malaysia, est.

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 Po-Kai in AU Australia.

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Pokai 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 Pokai is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
MY Malaysia≈19 est.≈1 in 1.7MPokai3
US United States≈6 est.≈1 in 55MPokai10
AU Australia≈2 est.≈1 in 10MPo-Kai19

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.

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)

Pokai is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Chinese given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Taiwan, United States, United Kingdom, China

    Also written Po-Kai

  • Thai surname45 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Thailand, United States

    Also written โภคัย, โพธิ์ไข, โพธิ์กาศ, โภไคย, Phokai

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written পোঁকাই

15 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Pokai is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Māori, to wind something in a ball or coil

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Malay, Having no money; broke

    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.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Pokai 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

Is Pokai a male or female name?
Pokai 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 Pokai have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 19 people named Pokai in Malaysia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pokai.
How common is the name Pokai?
Mondonomo estimates about 19 people in Malaysia have Pokai as their first given name, about 1 in 1.7 million residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.

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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pokai

The 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, “Pokai”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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