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Daichi

Boy · DYE-chee · Japanese

Daichi is a boys' name of Japanese origin, meaning “great earth”. Too few babies were given it in the latest year to rank.

What does Daichi mean?

Japanese: Japanese, commonly written with the characters for 'big' and 'earth'

“great earth”

A Japanese boys' name most often written with the characters for big and earth, though other characters are possible.

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DYE-chee

Is Daichi a girl's or a boy's name?

Daichi is a boys' name.

How popular is Daichi in the US?

No boys in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2009, with 15 boys. It first appears in the records in 1990.

Half of all the boys named Daichi in the US since 1880 were born between 1997 and 2011, the years shaded on the chart below.

1990Busiest: 15 in 20092019
Daichi in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
20197#9,750
20189#8,150
20170–
201610#7,600
20155#12,080
20146#10,711
20139#8,113
20128#8,858
20116#10,801
20107#9,686
200915#5,796
20087#9,864
20076#10,915
200610#7,422
20058#8,292
20048#8,137
20037#8,636
20028#7,636
20019#6,928
200010#6,309
19990–
199814#4,645
199714#4,446
199612#4,871
19955#8,861
19940–
19938#6,221
19926#7,414
19917#6,511
19905#8,108

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