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The KAI surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 947 24701 0 4
United States (1880 census) 23 70390 0 0
Change since 1880 +924 +45689 +N/A +N/A
Other Countries
Australia 25 44571 0 2
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for KAI by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 248 9856 0.001 7
Hawaii 126 684 0.010 104
New York 84 20413 0.000 4
Nebraska 62 3678 0.004 36
Arizona 43 11679 0.001 8
Top States for KAI by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Hawaii 126 684 0.010 104
Nebraska 62 3678 0.004 36
Rhode Island 9 14535 0.001 9
Arizona 43 11679 0.001 8
Iowa 24 16673 0.001 8

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

Classification and Origin of KAI

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the KAI surname.

Ethnic distribution of KAI in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Asian/Pacific 501 52.9
White (Caucasian) 259 27.35
Mixed Race 88 9.29
Black/African American 42 4.44
White (Hispanic) 30 3.17
Native American/Alaskan 27 2.85

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

KAI is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of KAI in historical publications

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

Similar names to KAI

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as KAI.

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 KAI

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