Easy Pronunciation for Easy Retention For many years now, there has been a trend among parents to make up a name to further enhance their baby’s unique identity. This is not an unwise idea. Many of the names used today were made up hundreds of years ago and did not necessarily have a specific meaning. The only problem ....More..

Pai as Last Name

Ajit Manohar Pai            Origin/Culture/Country: Indian
Ajit Manohar Pai: is a former Indian cricketer who played in one Test in 1969.

Kenneth Hsien-yung Pai            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese
Kenneth Hsien-yung Pai: is a writer who has been described as a "melancholy pioneer." He was born in Guilin, Guangxi, China at the cusp of both the Second Sino-Japanese War and subsequent Chinese Civil War. Pai's father was the famous Kuomintang (KMT) general Bai Chongxi (Pai Chung-hsi), whom he later described as a "stern, Confucian father" with "some soft spots in his heart." Pai was diagnosed with tuberculosis at the age of seven, during which time he would have to live in a separate house from his siblings (of which he would have a total of nine). He lived with his family in Chongqing, Shanghai, and Nanjing before moving to the British-controlled Hong Kong in 1948 as CPC forces turned the tide of the Chinese Civil War. In 1952, Pai and his family resettled in Taiwan, where the KMT had relocated the Republic of China after Japan's defeat in 1945.