Thăo

given name · Latin script

Thăo is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Vietnam than in any other country, where it is the 33rd most common given name.

  • VNVietnam≈1 in 190(inferred from the name graph)
  • AUAustralia≈1 in 20K
  • USUnited States1 in 28K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Vietnam (inferred from the name graph)

≈530,000 people, est.

Record sources
220 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 185 (inferred from the name graph)

Vietnam, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Thao in VN Vietnam, US United States, CA Canada and 2 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Thăo counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Thăo is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
VN Vietnam#33≈530,000 est.≈1 in 185listedThao220
US United States—11,9931 in 28K27KThao168
ID Indonesia—≈2,400 est.≈1 in 111Klisted—1
GB United Kingdom—≈1,700 est.≈1 in 39K6Thao40
AU Australia—≈1,300 est.≈1 in 20K1—1
CA Canada—≈1,100 est.≈1 in 34K—Thao50
SE Sweden—3391 in 30K339Thao9

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Thăo under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Thăo have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 533 thousand people named Thăo in Vietnam, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled thao.
How common is the name Thăo?
In the United States, the national register counted 11,993 people named Thăo in 2020, about 1 in 28 thousand residents.
How common is Thăo compared with other names?
In Vietnam, Thăo is the 33rd most common given name of 73,918 given names recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Thăo” — the 33rd most common given name in Vietnam. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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