Mai

Mai may refer to:

Given name

• Mai (Arabic name), an Arabic female name
• Mai or Maj, a Swedish female name (from Maja, a nickname for Maria, see Mary (given name))
• Mai, a female Vietnamese name
• Mai, the title of Sayfawa dynasty kings of Chad
• Mai, Old French for Maia, the Italic goddess of spring, the daughter of Faunus, and wife of Vulcan
• Omai, also known as Mai, the first person from the Pacific Islands to visit Europe
• Mai Charoenpura, a Thai pop singer from Bangkok
• Mai Kadowaki, a Japanese seiyū
• Mai Hoshimura (born 1981), a J-pop singer under the Sony Music Japan label
• Mai Hagiwara (born 1996), a J-pop singer under Hello! Project and a member of C-ute
• Mai (singer) (born 1984), formerly known as Ruppina, J-Pop singer
• Mai Kuraki (born 1982), a J-pop singer
• Mai Matsumuro, (born 1983), a Japanese singer, composer and a former member of J-pop band "Dream"
• Mai Yamada, Japanese actress
• Mai Yamane, (born 1958), a Japanese English-language blues singer
• Mai Zetterling, Swedish actress and film director

Surname

• Mai (Chinese surname), the Chinese surname 麥 (simplified 麦), pronounced Mak in Cantonese
• Mai (Chữ Nôm: 梅), the Vietnamese pronuciation of Mei (surname)
• Jeannie Mai, American makeup artist, fashion expert, actress, and TV personality

Fictional characters

• Mai, a supporting character from the television show Avatar: The Last Airbender
• Mai, one of Pilaf's henchmen in Dragon Ball
• Mai, a main character from the anime and eroge game in Popotan
• Mai Kawasumi, a character from the visual novel, anime, and manga in Kanon
• Mai Kuju, from Mai the Psychic Girl, a 1985 manga
• Mai Mishō, co-protagonist of Futari wa Pretty Cure Splash Star
• Mai Shiranui, a character in The King of Fighters series of video games
• Mai Taniyama, a character in the anime and manga Ghost Hunt
• Mai Tokiha, the title character in the anime and manga My-HiME (originally Mai-HiME), and a supporting character in My-Otome
• Mai Tsubasa (aka Change Phoenix, a character in Dengeki Sentai Changeman
• Mai Valentine (Mai Kujaku in the Japanese version), a character from the anime Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters

Other uses

• Mai, Non Sung, Thailand
• Mai (Papua New Guinea)
• Mai (song), a song by Josh Groban from the album Awake Live
• Mai, a mother goddess in Siberian mythology, mostly among Turkish Siberians
• The translation of the month May in several European and other languages
• The Mai (The Nine Lives of Chloe King) sworn protectors of the human race not quite human not quite god but descendants of an ancient race with cat like powers.

Acronym

• Machine augmented intelligence, the use of technology to amplify and empower human thought and consciousness
• Maithili language ISO 639 code
• Marine Accident Investigation, the Investigation of Ship relating accidents
• Market for Alternative Investment, a stock market for SMEs in Thailand
• Mean annual increment, a measure of the average growth per year a tree or stand of trees has exhibited at a specified age
• Member of the Appraisal Institute, a degree requiring ascending levels of tests
• Ministério da Administração Interna, the Ministry of Interior (Portugal)
• Ministerul Administraţiei şi internelor, the Ministry of Administration and Interior (Romania)
• Moscow Aviation Institute, an engineering an aviation academy in Russia
• Motorsports Association of India, the FIA arm of Indian Motorsports
• Multilateral Agreement on Investment, a treaty negotiated between members of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) between 1995 and 1998
• Multiple Access Interference, a type of interference that occurs in Code division multiple access (CDMA) systems
• Myanmar Airways International, an airline from Myanmar (Burma)
• Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare infection, a mycobacterial infection which typically occurs in immunosuppressed patients, such as those in the late stages of AIDS