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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Lai

Recorded for both sexesMillennial

2025 rank

—

not recorded in 2025

2025 births

—

All-time births

231

peak year 1984

More common than

75%

of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1984
17 births
Best rank
#4,414
in 1984
First recorded
1953
#6,112 that year
Last recorded
2015
no later published record
Average birth year
1987
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
28 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 198417#4,414Peak
  2. 199217#5,608
  3. 199315#6,114
  4. 198212#5,731
  5. 198111#6,104

Rank over time

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

Best rank #4,414 in 1984 · peak births 17 in 1984

Boys and girls

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

● 10% boys■ 90% girls

25 boys · 231 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 Lai has ranked, decade by decade

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