girls:
10 births since 1998
#5706 (0th percentile)
boys:
49 births since 2003
#4537 (1st percentile)
overall:
59 births since 1998
#7680 (1st percentile)
The name Jhai is the #7,680 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 59 recorded births since 1998. This represents the 0.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 0.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,537 (1.0% percentile) for all time with 49 births since 2003. For girls, it ranks #5,706 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 10 births since 1998.
Jhai first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1998 (1998 for girls and 2003 for boys). Birth data for Jhai is available in 9 out of the 26 years between 1998 and 2023 (7 years for boys and 2 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Jhai has been given predominantly to boys, with 83.1% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Jhai were boys. Interestingly, until around 2003, the name was more popular for girls (100.0% girls from 1998 to 2002), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (90.7% boys from 2003 to 2023).
For boys, Jhai reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #905) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.7% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Jhai is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #905 (0.7% percentile) with 6 births per million.
For girls, Jhai reached its peak popularity in 2016, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #957) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2016, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2016.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jhai".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Jhai. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 77.1% confident that Jhai is pronounced as jai, which has 1 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is jay, at 22.9% confidence, with 1 syllables.
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