Boy's name Kai.

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Anonymous wrote:I know it as a Hawaiian name. I think it’s a terrible name for someone not connected to Hawaii. I envision the opposite of a stereotypical “Harvard grad.”

Get out more. It was (is) a very common first name in Germany, mostly for men born in the 60s and 70s. It means warrior or fighter and is derived from Old Low German.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m in Florida and it’s quite popular here. My son is 7 and we’ve met probably half a dozen.

Florida? Go figure, it is more of a cold climate name to me

I would imagine that every other boy in Florida would be called either Ernest or Hemingway.

My son is a friend of Kai here in AZ. His dad is Hawaiian, so I just assumed that's where the name came from. Wherever it's from, I love that name!

I know people who named their dog Kai, when we were all living on an island in Micronesia. I love the name - but I think only if you have some connection to the islands.

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Anonymous wrote:It's a nickname for the Kai I know.

Malikai is his full name.

Is that a twist on Malachi?

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Anonymous wrote:I know it as a Hawaiian name. I think it’s a terrible name for someone not connected to Hawaii. I envision the opposite of a stereotypical “Harvard grad.”

Agree

+1 feels like cultural appropriation

Get educated. Whose culture do you think you're appropriating?

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I have a Kai! His reference points for other Kais are Kai Ryssdal from Marketplace, and Kai from Ninjago. There's also the newly elected member of Congress from Hawaii with the name. And a former NFL kicker.

For those crying cultural appropriation, it's a common name across the globe from an assortment of cultures. So, which culture am I appropriating again?

Apparently it's fairly common but we've never met another kid-Kai. I know people whose nephews are Kais, or whose neighbors have a Kai.

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Anonymous wrote:I know it as a Hawaiian name. I think it’s a terrible name for someone not connected to Hawaii. I envision the opposite of a stereotypical “Harvard grad.”

Agree

+1 feels like cultural appropriation

Get educated. Whose culture do you think you're appropriating?

Hawaiian/Polynesian

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I know it as a Hawaiian name. I think it’s a terrible name for someone not connected to Hawaii. I envision the opposite of a stereotypical “Harvard grad.”

Agree

+1 feels like cultural appropriation

Interesting. I'm a pp that said I knew a ton of white guy/Japanese woman couples that named their son Kai. One of them (the white guy) is actually a Harvard grad.

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Kai isn't a great name. It's ok, but honestly, I've never met one that I've really liked (all of the Kais I've met have been adults, so I'm not bagging on any little kids here).

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Anonymous wrote:It's a nickname for the Kai I know.

Malikai is his full name.

Is that a twist on Malachi?

I guess? It is pronounced the same.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know it as a Hawaiian name. I think it’s a terrible name for someone not connected to Hawaii. I envision the opposite of a stereotypical “Harvard grad.”

Agree

+1 feels like cultural appropriation

Interesting. I'm a pp that said I knew a ton of white guy/Japanese woman couples that named their son Kai. One of them (the white guy) is actually a Harvard grad.

Then he probably knows it's also Scandinavian and Germanic. Seems unlikely that they went to Polynesia in the Middle Ages and swiped the name. Unlilke the dim PP.

[Anonymous]

Very Hawaiian/west coast laid back vibe.

Also Kai Rysdall <3

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know it as a Hawaiian name. I think it’s a terrible name for someone not connected to Hawaii. I envision the opposite of a stereotypical “Harvard grad.”

Agree

+1 feels like cultural appropriation

Get educated. Whose culture do you think you're appropriating?

Hawaiian/Polynesian

Honestly, this is more offensive than whatever "appropriation" you're decrying. Just because *you* think of the name as Hawaiian/Polynesian (which btw is already a vast oversimplification) doesn't mean that you are the authority on what culture "owns" Kai. It's a common name in Japan, China, Wales, German, Finland, and yes Hawaii... but you think that just because you know it as Hawaiian means that people from outside of Hawaii using it are appropriating the name?

That would be like me saying "Oh, I think of Omar as an Egyptian name, so if you're not from Egypt and you use it you're engaging in cultural appropriation." Even though I'm not Egyptian and Omar is a name that, like Kai, has been used in all sorts of cultures and religious traditions across the world.

[Anonymous]

Short for Cobra Kai maybe.

[Anonymous]

I don't really care for it but I appreciate it doesn't have an ambiguous pronunciation

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know it as a Hawaiian name. I think it’s a terrible name for someone not connected to Hawaii. I envision the opposite of a stereotypical “Harvard grad.”

Agree

+1 feels like cultural appropriation

Get educated. Whose culture do you think you're appropriating?

Hawaiian/Polynesian

Honestly, this is more offensive than whatever "appropriation" you're decrying. Just because *you* think of the name as Hawaiian/Polynesian (which btw is already a vast oversimplification) doesn't mean that you are the authority on what culture "owns" Kai. It's a common name in Japan, China, Wales, German, Finland, and yes Hawaii... but you think that just because you know it as Hawaiian means that people from outside of Hawaii using it are appropriating the name?

That would be like me saying "Oh, I think of Omar as an Egyptian name, so if you're not from Egypt and you use it you're engaging in cultural appropriation." Even though I'm not Egyptian and Omar is a name that, like Kai, has been used in all sorts of cultures and religious traditions across the world.

I wasn't decrying anything. I mostly think it's sort of dopey for people who don't have a connection to the islands to use the name, because I used to live in Micronesia and associate the name very strongly with the islands. But call your kid what you want - Brayden, Kai, Omar, Kevin, Fang, Vlad. Doesn't matter to me!