How Many People Are Named Hai?
people named Hai are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 611,421 people in the US has this name
Based on 588 babies named Hai in Social Security records from 1975 to 2015, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
50 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
From Chinese 海 (hǎi) meaning "sea, ocean" or other characters which are pronounced similarly.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
Of the babies given the name Hai, 3.6% were girls and 96.4% were boys. The share has stayed close to this since the 1980s: 6.8% of the babies were girls then and 0% in the 1990s.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Hai alive today is about 37 years old, and 81% are between 30 and 59. Half of them were between 32 and 42 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Hai first appears in the records in 1975 and was given most often in 1983, to 50 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2015.
Babies given the name each year, 1975 to 2015
🏆 Rank History
Hai has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #1,434, in 1983.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | Not ranked |
| Best rank | #1,434 (1983) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #2,013 in the 1980s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Hai alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Hai were born in California than in any other state: about 106 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Hai was given about 5.5 times as often in California.
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