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hai Name Meaning and History

  1. Muslim: from a personal name based on Arabic hayy ‘alive’. Al-Hayy, ‘the Living’, is one of the attributes of Allah.
  2. Chinese : from the name of Hai Qun, a senior minister of the state of Wei during the Spring and Autumn period (722–481 bc). The character for this name also means ‘ocean’.
  3. Vietnamese: unexplained.
  4. Jewish (Israeli): ornamental name from Hebrew chai ‘alive’, ‘vivid’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The hai name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the hai family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of hai Families in the US in 1920
Number of hai families
 7-11
 3-6		 1-2
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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