Kai
735
Babies in 2024
-14%
10-year change
2010
Peak · 1.31k
+6%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Kai
Kai is one of the more popular UK boys' names in the latest ONS data, ranked #72 for boys born in 2024 with 735 babies registered in England & Wales.
Kai reached its peak in 2010, when 1,308 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #56 for UK boys that year. Today's count of 735 represents 56% of the peak.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 24,432 boys have been officially registered with the name Kai in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 7,766 boys were registered with the name, starting from 858 in 2014 and ending at 735 in 2024.