Vaï
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Vaï is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese vai, from vādit (present indicative), Latin vāde (imperative). Cognate with Galician vai and Spanish va.
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 115K(inferred from the name graph)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 186K
- CLChile≈1 in 342K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 45 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 115K (inferred from the name graph)
≈660 people, est.
Highest-authority source
New Zealand, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Vai in US United States, MY Malaysia, ID Indonesia and 2 more.
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)
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese vai, from vādit (present indicative), Latin vāde (imperative). Cognate with Galician vai and Spanish va.
Sources 2
- Wiktionary
- Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Vaï 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID Indonesia | ≈660 est. | ≈1 in 406K | — | Vai | 37 |
| US United States | 270 | 1 in 1.2M | 238 | Vai | 45 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 186K | — | Vai | 13 |
| TZ Tanzania | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 406K | — | Vai | 4 |
| AU Australia | ≈67 est. | ≈1 in 382K | 1 | — | — |
| CL Chile | ≈53 est. | ≈1 in 342K | 1 | — | — |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈43 est. | ≈1 in 115K | — | Vai | 6 |
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 2020; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021). 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 Vaï mean, and where does it come from?
- Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese vai, from vādit (present indicative), Latin vāde (imperative). Cognate with Galician vai and Spanish va. Recorded by Wiktionary and Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames).
- Is Vaï a male or female name?
- Vaï 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 Vaï have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 658 people named Vaï in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled vai.
- How common is the name Vaï?
- In the United States, the national register counted 270 people named Vaï in 2020, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/va%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, “Vaï”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.