Mai (Vietnamese: Mai) refers to the apricot blossom (mai vàng) — the yellow flower that is the symbol of Vietnamese New Year (Tết) in southern Vietnam, a sign of prosperity and good fortune. In Japanese, Mai (舞) can mean "dance."
Mai is among the most common girl's names in Vietnam and is also used in Japan, China, and across Southeast Asia. Two-letter, soft-sounding, with a flower behind it.
Mai does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
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In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Mai reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.