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The first name 
Cai

Cai is a unisex first name, but it's given significantly more often to boys than girls.

Cai – well-known but still special!

Few children have been named Cai in recent years. Although it is used several times each year, only approximately 3 out of 100,000 children are currently called Cai. Whether you’re a boy or a girl, you will most likely be the only person with the special name Cai at your school. In our SmartGenius ranking, Cai is number *** on the list of most common first names.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Cai

Cai has 3 letters 
and begins with a C

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter C is a frequent initial letter for first names. This is because 5.7% of all common given names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of given names, by the way, are A, J and K.

With only three letters, the name Cai is obviously very short. In fact, only 1.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly three letters. Just 0.2% of all first names are even shorter and only have two letters, while nearly 99% of all boys’ and girls’ names use more than three letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.

With 5.7% of all first names that begin with a C, this first letter is thus much more common than the average of all letters.

Other names with 
C, a and i

If you take all the letters in the name Cai – C, a and i – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Cia or Ica.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Cai

If your name is Cai and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...

This is how you spell the name Cai

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Cai, you can simply say:

Cat

Apple

Igloo

This is how the name Cai is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Cai in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Cai

Cai

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Cai

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Cai is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

C
A
I

Have you ever waved the name Cai

In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.

C
A
I

Beeping like crazy...

In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Cai sounds like this: