Cooked veggies.

Oh, and my friend's kid is now 26.

I like it

A friend of mine named her kid Kai. She is in Hawaii.

Clearly, we need more Kais You can not go wrong with the meaning.


Except for Tamil... I would stay clear from Kai:
In Tamil, kai means vegetables or cooked vegetables.

or if you have ambition for your Kai to live in Thailand
In Thai, kai means "chicken" and is used as a nickname.

The name Kai or Cai /ˈkaɪ/ has various origins and meanings in different cultures:

In Basque, kai is a common word meaning "pier of a harbor"[citation needed] and a variant of the first name Kaio (from the old Latin name Caius, meaning "happy").[citation needed]
In Chinese, Kai is a very common given name with one of several meanings, most commonly "victory" (凯/凱), "start" or "open" (开/開). Kai is often used in names meaning "start" (啓) in Cantonese Chinese.[citation needed]
In Estonian, Kai is a female (and very rarely male) name meaning "pier" or "quay".[1][2]
In Finnish, Kai is a common male name, Finnish form of Kaj.[citation needed]
In Frisian, Kai is a short form of Frisian "Kaimbe", meaning "warrior".[citation needed]
In German, Kai has the same meaning as in Frisian.[citation needed]
In Hawaiian, Kai is a unisex name which means "sea" in Hawaiian language or “ocean”.[citation needed]
In Japanese, kai has a number of meanings, including "ocean" (海), "shell" (貝), "restoration" and "recovery".[3][4]
In Kono and Kissi, Kai is a male name; it is also a paramount chief title or prefix that means king of kings.[citation needed]
In Māori, kai means "food" or "meal".[5]
In Swahili, Kai is a female name meaning "lovable".[citation needed]
In Swedish, Kai is a male name meaning "rejoice".[citation needed]
In Tamil, kai means vegetables or cooked vegetables.[citation needed]
In Thai, kai means "chicken" and is used as a nickname.[citation needed]
In Welsh, Kai is a popular given name normally spelled "Cai". It is used as an independent name in Wales due to its use in the Arthurian legend of Sir Kay.[citation needed]
In Turkish, Kai is a male name is spelled normally spelled “Kayı”. Turkish origin and means of Kayı "Blessed or Chosen ones or tribe". The Kayı or Kai tribe (Middle Turkic: قَيِغْ, romanized: Kayığ; Turkish: Kayı boyu, Turkmen: Gaýy taýpasy) were an Oghuz Turkic people and a sub-branch of the Bozok tribal federation
In Northern Ireland, data indicated that Kai experienced a significant rise in popularity as a male given name from 2002 to 2003.[citation needed] It has become popular in the United Kingdom, with many children born in the mid to late 1990s given the name.[citation needed] While it is typically a male given name, in recent years it has become popular for girls as well.[6]

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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 really like it. I always thought it was Hawaiian though for some reason!

Also, Cobra Kai!

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.

I wonder if the sheer popularity of the movie Frozen made it more popular. While Kai is not featured in it, the original Andersen's story
main characters are a boy called Kai and a girl called Gerda. He was swapped by the Snow Queen into her beautiful sled and
his heart was changed by the bit of an ice that got into it. Took Gerda a lot effort to get to find him in the Ice castle and her kiss
melted his heart finally. Original story is so different from Frozen.

Still, the name Kai rocks.

If you want to know more:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Snow_Queen

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

I don't know any Kai, but I picture slim handsome guy with high intelligence. Probably Harvard grad.

I like it

It's a good name. I know two little boys named Kai.

It is an old European name but it is in that category as
Neo
Theo

I really like it.