boys:
165 births since 2013
#4421 (4th percentile)
overall:
165 births since 2013
#7574 (2nd percentile)
The name Katai is the #7,574 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 165 recorded births since 2013. This represents the 2.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 2.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,421 (3.5% percentile) for all time with 165 births since 2013.
Katai first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2013 (first recorded for boys in 2013).
For boys, Katai reached its peak popularity in 2014, achieving the 3.2% percentile (ranked #875) with 17 births per million. The name was most common in 2014, with 17 births per million (ranked 3.2% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Katai ranks #904 for boys (0.8% percentile) with 7 births per million, which is 39.5% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Katai".
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Our model has identified 8 different pronunciations for the name Katai. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 29.7% confident that Katai is pronounced as kuh-TAI, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is kah-TAI, at 24.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like K AH0 T AY1) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
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