The name Kai or Cai ˈ k aɪ has various origins and meanings in different cultures.

Baby name meaning kai. Kai is also considered to have Welsh Scandinavian and Greek roots. Kai is a Dutch Finnish Frisian German Scandinavian and Welsh name of Latin origin. This name is of Hawaiian origin meaning sea.

The name Kai has many origins but it most often thought of as Japanese and Hawaiian origin and means sea. Keeper of the keys. In addition to the Scandinavian listed above in Hawaiian it means ocean and is often an element in longer names as well as a stand-alone name.

In American Baby Names the meaning of the name Kai is. In Japanese kai has a number of meanings including ocean 海 shell 貝 restoration and recovery. Earth African Chinese Korean Native American and Turkish cultures all use the name Kai.

And a name element in Japanese that can be used on its own as a nickname. The medieval Danish Kaj is possibly of Roman origin Latinized as Caius like the rare medieval English male given name Kay. We chose Kai because it means ocean.

We are beach people and loved the connection the the ocean. The different meanings of the name Kai are. It can also be a nickname for the feminine Kaja in Swedish or from the masculine Gaius in German Dutch and Finnish.

Learn about the name Kai快. K ai as a boys name also used less commonly as girls name Kai is pronounced kye. It is of Welsh Scandinavian and Greek origin and the meaning of Kai is keeper of the keys.