Hai Family History
Hai Name Meaning
Muslim (mainly the Indian subcontinent): from a personal name based on Arabic ḥayy ‘alive’. Al-Ḥayy ‘the Living’ is an attribute of Allah. Jewish: variant of Hay . Chinese: Mandarin form of the surname 海 meaning ‘sea’ in Chinese: (i) possibly from the second element of the placename Nan Hai (南海 ‘South Sea’) (located in Guangdong province) said to have been the residence of a descendant of the legendary Huang Di the ‘Yellow Emperor’ (c. 27th century
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022