Kai
English
editEtymology
editTaken into regular use in the 1990s, with earlier popularity peaks in Scandinavia and Germany. The medieval Danish Kaj is possibly of Roman origin, Latinized as Caius, like the rare medieval English male given name Kay. The German Kai may also derive from a West Frisian pet form of Gerard, Cornelius, Nicholas, or Kampe "warrior". In the U.S. Kai has also been explained as Hawaiian kai (“sea”).
Pronunciation
editProper noun
editKai
- A male given name from the Germanic languages of modern usage.
- (rare) A female given name of modern usage.
Anagrams
editDanish
editProper noun
editKai
- a male given name, a less common spelling of Kaj
References
edit- [1] Danskernes Navne, based on CPR data: 8 117 males with the given name Kai (compared to 31 574 named Kaj) have been registered in Denmark between about 1890 (=the population alive in 1967) and January 2005, with the frequency peak in the 1920s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.
Estonian
editProper noun
editKai
- a female given name, short for Kaia, Katariina ("Catherine")
Faroese
editEtymology
editFrom Danish Kaj, from Latin Cāius, from Etruscan 𐌂𐌀𐌉𐌄 (caie), from an era when the letter C represented the phonetic value /ɡ/.
Pronunciation
editProper noun
editKai m
- a male given name, compare Kaj (more common, but Danish spelling)
Usage notes
editPatronymics
- son of Kai: Kaisson
- daughter Kai: Kaisdóttir
Declension
editSingular | |
Indefinite | |
Nominative | Kai |
Accusative | Kai |
Dative | Kai |
Genitive | Kais |
Finnish
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editProper noun
editKai
- a male given name
Declension
editInflection of Kai (Kotus type 18/maa, no gradation) | |||
---|---|---|---|
nominative | Kai | Kait | |
genitive | Kain | Kaiden Kaitten | |
partitive | Kaita | Kaita | |
illative | Kaihin | Kaihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | Kai | Kait | |
accusative | nom. | Kai | Kait |
gen. | Kain | ||
genitive | Kain | Kaiden Kaitten | |
partitive | Kaita | Kaita | |
inessive | Kaissa | Kaissa | |
elative | Kaista | Kaista | |
illative | Kaihin | Kaihin | |
adessive | Kailla | Kailla | |
ablative | Kailta | Kailta | |
allative | Kaille | Kaille | |
essive | Kaina | Kaina | |
translative | Kaiksi | Kaiksi | |
abessive | Kaitta | Kaitta | |
instructive | — | Kain | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Statistics
edit- Kai is the 91st most common male given name in Finland, belonging to 7,771 male individuals (and as a middle name to 1,269 more), and also belongs to 34 female individuals (and as a middle name to 12 more), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
Anagrams
editGerman
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
edit17th century, from Dutch kaai, from Middle Dutch kaey (whence also through hypercorrection Dutch kade). The word is ultimately Celtic, but it is unsettled whether the Dutch form is borrowed via Old French kay, as traditionally held, or indeed vice versa.
Noun
editKai m (strong, genitive Kais, plural Kais or (uncommon) Kaie)
Declension
editDescendants
edit- → Polish: keja
Etymology 2
editTaken into regular use in the 20th century; either borrowed from Danish Kaj, or from a West Frisian baby talk form of Kaimbe, Kempe (“fighter, warrior”), Gerrit (“Gerard”), Cornelis (“Cornelius”) and Kleis (“Nicholas”).
Proper noun
editKai m or f (proper noun, strong, genitive Kais, plural Kais)
- (chiefly Northern Germany) a male given name
- (rare) a diminutive of the female given name Katharina
Declension
editAlternative forms
editHawaiian
editEtymology
editFrom kai (“sea, sea water”); also a short form of compound given names containing this word.
Pronunciation
editProper noun
editKai
- a male or (less commonly) female given name from Hawaiian
References
edit- Hawaii State Archives: Marriage records Kai occurs in 19th century marriage records as the only name (mononym) of 10 women and 13 men.
- Social Security Administration: Popular Baby Names by State: Kai was included in the top hundred first names for boys born in the State of Hawaii in 1995-2008.
Norwegian
editProper noun
editKai
- a male given name derived from Danish Kaj
Turkish
editProper noun
editKai
- a male given name derived from Kayı
See also
edit- English 1-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:English/aɪ
- Rhymes:English/aɪ/1 syllable
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English given names
- English male given names
- English male given names from Germanic languages
- English terms with rare senses
- English female given names
- English unisex given names
- Danish lemmas
- Danish proper nouns
- Danish given names
- Danish male given names
- Estonian lemmas
- Estonian proper nouns
- Estonian given names
- Estonian female given names
- Faroese terms derived from Danish
- Faroese terms derived from Latin
- Faroese terms derived from Etruscan
- Faroese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Faroese/aiː
- Faroese terms with homophones
- Faroese lemmas
- Faroese proper nouns
- Faroese masculine nouns
- Faroese given names
- Faroese male given names
- Finnish terms derived from Danish
- Finnish 1-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/ɑi
- Rhymes:Finnish/ɑi/1 syllable
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish proper nouns
- Finnish given names
- Finnish male given names
- Finnish maa-type nominals
- Finnish three-letter words
- German 1-syllable words
- German terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:German/aɪ̯
- Rhymes:German/aɪ̯/1 syllable
- German terms borrowed from Dutch
- German terms derived from Dutch
- German terms derived from Middle Dutch
- German terms derived from Old French
- German lemmas
- German nouns
- German masculine nouns
- German terms borrowed from Danish
- German terms derived from Danish
- German terms derived from West Frisian
- German proper nouns
- German feminine nouns
- German nouns with multiple genders
- Northern German
- German given names
- German male given names
- German terms with rare senses
- German female given names
- German diminutives of female given names
- Hawaiian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Hawaiian lemmas
- Hawaiian proper nouns
- Hawaiian given names
- Hawaiian male given names
- Hawaiian male given names from Hawaiian
- Hawaiian female given names
- Hawaiian female given names from Hawaiian
- Norwegian lemmas
- Norwegian proper nouns
- Norwegian given names
- Norwegian male given names
- Turkish lemmas
- Turkish proper nouns
- Turkish given names
- Turkish male given names