Kai 1

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12/7/2022, 9:35 PM Mike C update #113
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1/22/2019, 10:01 AM Mike C update #101
10/20/2016, 1:17 AM Mike C update #93
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1/25/2013, 11:59 PM Mike C update #85
2/12/2007, 1:03 AM Mike C earliest recorded revision

Gender Masculine
Usage Frisian, German, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, Dutch, English
Pronounced Pron. KIE(German, Swedish, Finnish, English)

Meaning & History

Meaning uncertain, possibly a Frisian diminutive of Gerhard, Nicolaas, Cornelis or Gaius [1]. It is borne by a boy captured by the Snow Queen in an 1844 fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen. Spreading from Germany and Scandinavia, this name became popular in the English-speaking world and other places in Western Europe around the end of the 20th century.