Thái as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Thái

What is the meaning of the name Thái ?

The baby name Thái is a boy name , 1 syllables long and is pronounced [tʰaːj˧˦].

Thái is Chinese, Vietnamese in Origin.

Thái is a Vietnamese name with the sắc tone, belonging chiefly to the Sino-Vietnamese stratum of vocabulary. In given names it most often represents the Chinese character 泰, the earliest written form relevant to the name, read tài in Mandarin and Thái in Vietnamese. The root language is Literary Chinese: 泰 carries the semantic range peace, safety, ease, and great or grand. The Vietnamese reading reflects the regular Sino-Vietnamese adaptation of a Middle Chinese departing-tone syllable into a sắc-toned monosyllable.

In Vietnam, Thái appears in male names and occasionally female names, usually as a single Sino-Vietnamese element or in compounds; it also occurs as a surname, especially for 蔡, equivalent to Chinese Cai. Separate from the given-name character, thái can write 太, 彩, or function as the ethnonym in Thái Lan, Thailand. Related name forms include Thai when diacritics are omitted, Chinese Tai, Cantonese Taai, and Korean Tae for 泰.

⚙ Thái is rarely chosen. In all, it turns up just 113 times, across 17 countries.