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Swedish alternate spelling is Kaj.
'See Kai Run' is an apparel company specializing in baby and toddler footwear.

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Kai is a name in many languages. In addition to the Scandinavian listed above, in Hawaiian it means ocean, and is often an element in longer names as well as a stand-alone name; it is a Chinese name; and a name element in Japanese (that can be used on its own as a nickname). It may also be a Welsh name, as an alternate spelling for Kay (as in Sir Kay of King Arthur's Round Table). Native american it means wisdom.

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Kai Ryssdah, National Public Radio personality
Kai Winding - Danish jazz trombonist and composer
Kai Yu Hanson - footballer (Rangers Football Club, Glasgow, Scotland)
Kai Wayne Rooney- son of England and Man United footballer Wayne Rooney and his wife Colleen Rooney.
Kai Krause - German American software designer, creator of Kai's Power Tools

Kai in song, story & screen: | Edit

Kai is the beloved friend of the little girl Gerda, who rescues him from the Snow Queen in Hans Christian Anderson's fairy tale, "The Snow Queen". A Hallmark movie was made from this story in 2002, directed by David Wu.