Kawai

girls:

5 births since 2016

#5711 (0th percentile)

boys:

100 births since 2008

#4486 (2nd percentile)

overall:

105 births since 2008

#7634 (1st percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kawai".

2008 2023 20082023

Key Statistics

Total Births
5
Peak Births
5
Peak Year
2016
First Recorded
2016
Peak Percentile
0.0%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#957
Current Rank
Female statistics
Total Births
100
Peak Births
16
Peak Year
2020
First Recorded
2008
Peak Percentile
1.2%
Current Percentile
0.8%
Peak Rank
#890
Current Rank
#904
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Kawai

Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Kawai. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 52.4% confident that Kawai is pronounced as kuh-WAI. The next most likely pronunciation is kah-WAI, at 26.2% confidence.

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52.4%
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26.2%
kuh-WAI (2 syllables)
52.4% confidence
K AH0 W AY1
kah-WAI (2 syllables)
26.2% confidence
K AA0 W AY1
kah-WAH-ee (3 syllables)
Verified
14.3% confidence
K AA0 W AA1 IY0
kuh-WAH-ee (3 syllables)
7.1% confidence
K AH0 W AA1 IY0

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Kawai. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Kawai, please vote using the thumbs up button.

KAH-wee (2 syllables)
1 name 369 births
K AA1 W IY0

Names with this pronunciation:

keh-AH-vay (3 syllables)
1 name 136 births
K EH0 AA1 V EY0

Names with this pronunciation:

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like K AH0 W 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.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.