Kai for a boy?

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My favourite is Kai and DH is Noah. Well I have a lot more favourites that DH has vetoed! These are the only ones from the lists that haven’t been dismissed. I’m aware Noah is currently no. 1 I think.
And I had grown up on MN that “K” names were a no/no so I’m torn 😂

Noah is lovely.

I think Kai is a wee bit chavvy. Really sorry

I like Kai!

@JMSA thats what I thought it would be but didn’t think I could write chavvy without getting slated 😂 I’ve always seen K names as such!

There are many names better than Kai. Might be worth googling what Kai means in other languages too.

I’m not a fan of Kai, it sounds like a sound rather than a name.
I don’t like Noah much either. I’ve known a few and they’ve always been brats!

Kai is the ultimate chav name. Noah infinitely preferable.

K names are chavvy?

Someone better tell Keira Knightley she's a chav.

Kenneth, Kerry, Kim are all normal names surely?

My opinion of the name Kai has been improved a bit by Kai on Strictly who is lovely but sadly it still gives off Jeremy Kyle vibes for me

Kai means Sea/Ocean in Hawaiian, knew it might have been considered chavvy and don’t want to do that to a child 😂

Cai (pronounced the same as Kai) is a Welsh name meaning rejoice/happy

Is your DH that he's being too dismissive of your names?
Go back over some of your own favourites too and don't be too accepting when he says 'No' especially if he does it really fast after first hearing it.

My son (now 28) has a K name and I've never considered that it has a "chavvy" (hate that word) connotation.

Loads of posh people have names starting with K - Keira Knightly, Kate Middleton, Kit Harrington.

Call your baby whatever you want. Fashions change. I wanted to call my son Noah and got talked out of it as people said he would get bullied as it was such a ridiculous old fashioned name. Now there's loads of little Noahs running around

I don't necessarily consider Kai to be chavvy but I do think it's a little dated to the 2010ish era.

But equally if you love it then don't let anything put you off! It's a perfectly fine name 😊

I know a few called Cai, which is Welsh.

In Hindi it means algae and in Hong Kong Cantonese it means idiot.

Kit is nicer, or Bryce

Kai with a K is not classy. Cai is nicer, if there’s a Welsh connection. Noah is just too bloody common.

There's nothing wrong with K names. I've never understood the issue with them on here.

Kai isn't a name I'd choose, but it's infinitely nicer than the whiny Noah.

I taught a lovely Kai last year. It has positive associations for me.

I prefer Kai over Noah personally

I know a Welsh Cai. Nothing remotely “chavvy” about the name

Not that you said it was @Button28384738 , just addressing previous comments!

I’ve taught a lot of kids and I’ve never met a Kai (or Tyler, anything than ends in -den) that wasn’t a bit of a trouble maker. Noah is a much nicer name.

Kye (pronounced the same) means cattle in the North East.