Hai is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.
Recently, the name Hai has been given only a handful of times a year and is therefore particularly rare, at least in the US. In recent years, not even one boy in 100,000 has been named Hai. That means that a boy named Hai is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name his whole life. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Hai.
Do you know the feeling when you go to the zoo and the animal that is supposed to be in the enclosure is not there? You know it should be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Hai. Boys named Hai have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it a few years ago: At No. 1,189 Hai ranked higher than ever before in 1983. By comparison, there have been 109 years in which the first name Hai has not been given at all (or less than 5 times, which is the minimum number required for a name to be included in the statistics), most recently in 2022. In general, parents name their sons Hai only once in a blue moon, so boys and men with this name can consider themselves exceptional!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Hai was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
The first name Hai is a true rarity among all men and boys currently living in the United States – only 156 Americans in total bear this name. And these 156 men are located in only three states: California, Louisiana and Texas (it should be noted that the official statistics provide the data per state only if there are at least 5 men with this name in the state. So, if your name is Hai and you live outside the states marked on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most boys and men named Hai in relation to it’s male population is Louisiana. And yet even there, only one in 140,048 men would raise his hand if asked whether there was a Hai present.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter H is not particularly common as a first letter for boys' names: only 2.9% of all common boys' names in the US begin with an H. The most common first letters for boys' names are J and A, while X and U are the least common first letters of boys' names.
With only three letters, the name Hai 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.
This means that if 2.9% of all boys' names begin with an H, this initial letter is less common than the other letters on average. Nevertheless, there are of course some names that begin with H and are extremely popular, for example Henry, currently the most common boys’ name with H.
If your name is Hai 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...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Hai, you can simply say:
Hat
Apple
Igloo
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Hai
Hai
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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.
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. Hai sounds like this: