Dai

Boy · recorded 1976–2015

  • 2015last recorded
  • 1985best year

Most popular in 1985.

Last recorded in 2015. Fewer than five boys a year have been given it since, so it's a true rarity.

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Meaning

We don’t have a verified meaning for Dai.

We only publish meanings we can cite to a source you could check yourself. Most sites will give you one anyway; the ones you find elsewhere are often copied between sites without verification.

Its story

Popularity since 1976

03619761986199620052015

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Per million boys born. Years with fewer than five births are not in the record, so the line breaks rather than dropping to zero.
See the 18 recorded years as a table
Dai, per million boys born. Years absent from the table had fewer than five births.
YearPer million
19763
19773
19814
19823
19834
19856
19865
19873
19913
19924
19934
19953
19963
19983
20004
20014
20103
20154

Where it’s loved

Most popular in these states

Dai isn’t concentrated in any one state. Either it’s spread evenly, or no state reaches the 25 births over three years needed before a rate means anything.

More like it

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The numbers

Every figure

Births in 2015
7
Rank in 2015
#9,568
How rare
1 in 273,820 boys
Since 1976
122

Dai was last recorded in 2015. Fewer than five boys have been given the name in any year since, which is the point below which the record stops reporting.

Most popular in 1985, at 6 per million boys born.

There isn’t enough data for a ten-year trend: Dai doesn’t appear in both ends of that window.

Figures from the US Social Security Administration’s 2025 release. How these numbers are made.