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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Chai

Recorded for both sexesGen Z

2025 rank

#10,918

down −4,960 places

2025 births

6

down −9 births

All-time births

384

2% of them in 2025

More common than

80%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1993
16 births
Best rank
#3,295
in 1984
First recorded
1981
#3,642 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
2001
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
42 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 199316#3,846Peak
  2. 199416#3,935
  3. 202415#5,958
  4. 199114#4,035
  5. 200114#5,171

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #3,295 in 1984 · peak births 16 in 1993

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 59% boys■ 41% girls

384 boys · 263 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Chai has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.