Kai Family History
- Kai Name Meaning
- Dutch and North German: topographic name for someone living by a quayside, from Dutch kaai ‘quay’, German Kai (which was borrowed from the Dutch). Danish and Frisian: from the Danish personal name Kai, Kaj, Kay, which is of uncertain origin, most likely from Frisian or Latin Caius. Japanese: the original meaning is probably ‘shell’, but the name is written phonetically with two characters meaning ‘first class’ or ‘shell’, plus ‘beauty’. Though the surname is found mostly in the island of Kyushu, some families could have connections with the ancient province of Kai (now Yamanashi prefecture) in the mountains of central Honshu.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 33,779 Historical Documents with Kai on Ancestry
- 11,444 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 4,391 Census and Voter Lists
- 7,615 Military Records
- 6,256 Immigration Records
- 4,073 Member Trees
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Number of Kai families
 2 - 1  2 - 1 |
 1  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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