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Girl

Mai

The name Mai carries the meaning "Also short for May". It has faded some since the 1990s without dropping off entirely. These days, it is one of the rarer names on record. 1990 was this name's high-water mark in the U.S. birth records.

JapaneseJapanese – "dance" or "brightness"
EtymologyAlso short for May
Births by decade
1900s
29
1910s
83
1920s
128
1930s
94
1940s
45
1950s
77
1960s
107
1970s
251
1980s
1,604
1990s
1,655
2000s
746
2010s
413
Peaked in the 1990s · 5,232 total U.S. births since 1900