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The CAI surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 4,286 7178 0.002 16
United States (1880 census) 2 107158 0 0
Change since 1880 +4284 +99980 +N/A +N/A
Other Countries
Australia 652 2487 0.004 40
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for CAI by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 1,446 1965 0.004 43
New York 703 2350 0.004 37
Texas 228 7306 0.001 11
New Jersey 221 3865 0.003 26
Massachusetts 190 3997 0.003 30
Top States for CAI by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 1,446 1965 0.004 43
New York 703 2350 0.004 37
Massachusetts 190 3997 0.003 30
Washington 172 3830 0.003 29
New Jersey 221 3865 0.003 26

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called CAI live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called CAI represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called CAI in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a CAI by picking someone at random in California than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of CAI

Region of origin: Asia

Country of origin: China

Language of origin: Chinese

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the CAI surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of CAI in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 67 1.56
Mixed Race 54 1.26
Black/African American 32 0.75
Asian/Pacific 4,113 95.96
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant
White (Hispanic) Less than 100 Insignificant

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the CAI surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of CAI in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of CAI.

Similar names to CAI

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CAI.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for CAI

The following words are slight variants of CAI that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.