Lai

Girl · recorded 1953–2015

  • 2015last recorded
  • 1984best year

Most popular in 1984.

Last recorded in 2015. Fewer than five girls 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 Lai.

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 1953

051019531969198420002015

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Per million girls born. Years with fewer than five births are not in the record, so the line breaks rather than dropping to zero.
See the 28 recorded years as a table
Lai, per million girls born. Years absent from the table had fewer than five births.
YearPer million
19533
19673
19715
19755
19763
19773
19804
19817
19827
19836
198410
19855
19864
19875
19883
19894
19906
19914
19929
19938
19943
19954
19965
19975
19993
20003
20023
20153

Where it’s loved

Most popular in these states

Lai 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
6
Rank in 2015
#14,482
How rare
1 in 297,516 girls
Since 1953
231

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

Most popular in 1984, at 10 per million girls born.

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

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