Kitai

A boys’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 17 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
17
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
—
outside the ONS list

Kitai by the numbers

Kitai was given to 17 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

Its American peak was 62 babies in 2014, making it a 2010s name.

What we can tell you about Kitai

Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.

Spelled almost the same

Other names in the records within a letter or two of Kitai. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Katai14 in the US (2017)
  • Kiaanancient or eternal; a form of Kian106 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Kiranray of light, beam of sunlight123 in the US (2017)
  • Kimanisweet-smelling one74 in the US (2017)
  • Kanaiof the sea26 in the US (2017)
  • Kiratray of light10 in England and Wales (2025)

Names about as common as Kitai

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