Honest opinions on Kai?

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Hi new here!

We both (my husband and I) have a very mixed heritage.

My husband is Japanese/Chinese.

I'm Scottish/English.

It means so many beautiful things, from each different culture. It also works really well in all 4.

What are your honest opinions on the name? It just seems so fresh, handsome and relatively unusual!

Nope, don't like it. Not at all.

FWIW I love pp suggestion of Miko with your surname.. very cool.

Personally I like Kai but I speak Japanese so it has less of the Rooney factor for me

I also speak Japanese so maybe that's why it sounds ok to me. Tbh, I don't even know what the Rooney connection is - I assume the footballer has a child called Kai?

Don't like Kobe tbh OP. Sounds strange to me as a person's name.

I also don't get why the OP's DS needs to look like his dad in order to be called Kai!

Cai (Welsh) is much nicer than Kai. Even though it's pronounced the same way.

the Welsh name Caio is cool

I actually get the "looking like Dad" thing, though it's really not PC to say. I went to school with a blond, blue-eyed, pale boy called Dhiran Radnakrishnan and the gap between who people expected to appear, and this Scandinavian-looking boy was amusing to watch. Whenever we were asked to let an interesting fact about ourselves, he'd pipe up that he was half-Hindu.

Kai .. I love it and it's top of my list if I have a boy ..

I don't think it's Chavvy at all

Go for it xx

Kit sounds American? I think of it as an old English shortening for Christopher, eg Kit Marlowe. I suppose it depends on what ones influences are.

I have bad associations with it with quite a number of children so it's a no from me.

Midsomer* Kit also sounds American to me. I've honestly never come across the name or the fact it's short for Christopher apart from on here. I'm from the North but lived with Forces for years. It must be a regional thing like Ralph pronounced Rafe.

How about Koji?

I taught a Cei years and years ago and always loved that spelling.

Kobe I think beef.

Kai with your surname sounds brilliant and you clearly love it so use it.

I don't think Kit for Christopher is a regional thing. Probably just a little old fashioned.

No, it's not regional. It's a perfectly well known diminutive.

I don't like it as a name - as a PP said, it just means 'food' here.

dowager are you perchance mixing up the Kai and Bento threads with your post?

So many round here. Quite 'downmarket' as a pp said. Sorry Kit is nicer if you like that

Those teacher name bashing threads are a load of crap in my opinion. It depends on the children. A child's name might reflect a bit on the parents but not always on the child. Some teachers might have taught a lovely (insert name) others a horrible ( same name) etc.

I'm just personally not a fan of Kai, I've met a few and none have stood out as anything but ordinary children but I wouldn't say it's an unusual name.
It does go with your heritage though and matches surname so I wouldn't care what a whole pile of strangers on the internet think! If you and your husband like it that's all that matters!

I love love love Kai. It's a fab name and works beautifully cross culturally. Thought very well of in the US. I know a Kai-Belle and a normal boy Kai. Kai-Belle is normally Kaby but Kai is just Kai.

I think it works really well with your surname.

Caius is a, IMO, more well respected multi cultural Version and would obviously easily be shortened to Cai.....

You both like it, so go for it.
I have seen all sorts of names described as chavvy on here.
I don't think MN actually reflect rl opinion, or I fact the opinions on other forums. I think there are MN aproved names and names that MN just really don't aproved of - not high court judge material you see.

I wouldn't take any notice of the advice on here tbh, baby names is harsher than aibu - and that's really not a good thing.
it's a breeding ground for trolls and goady fuckers, and being an arse on here seems like a sport to some people, I think that a lot of people just like to be a cunt for the sake of it. Then pretend that they're just robust / honest/ thinking of the poor children without a naice name.

Kai is nice, don't let MN ruin it for you.

I like it, probably because it's the name of a friend's toddler who is the cutest, funniest, most adorable kid I know.

I don't really know who the Rooneys are but I went to school with a really nice guy called Kai so it has nice connotations for me.