girls:
212 births since 1980
#5504 (4th percentile)
boys:
1.2k births since 1975
#3406 (26th percentile)
overall:
1.4k births since 1975
#6331 (18th percentile)
The name Thai is the #6,331 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,413 recorded births since 1975. This represents the 18.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 18.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,406 (25.7% percentile) for all time with 1,201 births since 1975. For girls, it ranks #5,504 (3.7% percentile) for all time with 212 births since 1980.
Thai first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1975 (1975 for boys and 1980 for girls).
The name Thai has been given predominantly to boys, with 85.0% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Thai were boys.
For boys, Thai reached its peak popularity in 1983, achieving the 5.1% percentile (ranked #652) with 21 births per million. The name was most common in 1983, with 21 births per million (ranked 5.1% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2004, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Thai ranks #909 for boys (0.2% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 17.8% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Thai reached its peak popularity in 1982, achieving the 1.0% percentile (ranked #785) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1982, with 7 births per million (ranked 1.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Thai".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Thai", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 10 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Ty" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Ty..
Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Thai. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 75.6% confident that Thai is pronounced as tai, which has 1 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is thai, at 24.4% confidence, with 1 syllables.
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