Kai m

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Male Name
This name is used both as a female and a male name. See Kai f for the female version of this name.

Usage

Swedish
Danish
Norwegian
Finnish
Faroese

Origin and Meaning

The origin and meaning of Kai is uncertain. Theories include:

1) Variant form of the Frisian name Kaye ^{[1] [2]}
1a) A Frisian short form of Gerhard ^{[1] [3]}
1b) A Frisian short form of Nikolaus ^[4]
1c) A Frisian short form of Cornelis (see Cornelius)
1d) Frisian kaye related to the Old Norse word kaða = 'hen, chicken' (see Kaða) ^{[3] [5] [6]}

2) Short form of the Frisian name Kaimbe = 'warrior' ^[6]

3) Short form of the Latin name Caius ^{[7] [2] [3] [8] [4]}

4) Short form of the name Kajetan / Cajetan, deriving from the Latin name Caietanus meaning 'from the town Caieta (now Gaeta) in Latium'

Related Names

Cai	♂
Caj	♂
Cay	♂
Gáiju	♂
Kai	♂
Kaj	♂
Kay	♂

Name Days

Faroe Islands

14 October

Finland

16 February

Norway

14 October

Grammar

- Faroese
Nominative:	Kai
Accusative:	Kai
Dative:	Kai
Genitive:	Kais

Further Information

Namesakes

Kai Manne Börje Siegbahn, 20 April 1918 – 20 July 2007, Swedish physicist and Nobel laureate (Physics, 1981)

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Denmark[9]		5	n.a.	2872	n.a
Norway[10]		6	9	1407	5034
Sweden[11]		51	88	1178	1838
Finland[12]		n.a.	69	n.a	10945
#: count of main first name only
&: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

Recent statistics trend^{[11][9][10][12]}:

Norwegian historic statistics trend^[10]:

Sources: ^{[11] [9] [10] [12]}

References

1. ↑ Friedrich Wilhelm Weitershaus: Das große Vornamenlexikon (1998)
2. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
3. ↑ Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
4. ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
5. ↑ Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
6. ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
7. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
8. ↑ Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
9. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
10. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
11. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
12. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi