girls:
580 births since 1977
#5136 (10th percentile)
boys:
826 births since 1976
#3761 (18th percentile)
overall:
1.4k births since 1976
#6337 (18th percentile)
The name Bao is the #6,337 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,406 recorded births since 1976. This represents the 18.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 18.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,761 (17.9% percentile) for all time with 826 births since 1976. For girls, it ranks #5,136 (10.1% percentile) for all time with 580 births since 1977.
Bao first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1976 (1976 for boys and 1977 for girls).
The name Bao has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for boys (58.7% of all recorded births). In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Bao were boys.
For boys, Bao reached its peak popularity in 1986, achieving the 3.7% percentile (ranked #679) with 16 births per million. The name was most common in 1986, with 16 births per million (ranked 3.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2015, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Bao ranks #907 for boys (0.4% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 30.5% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Bao reached its peak popularity in 1990, achieving the 4.8% percentile (ranked #821) with 22 births per million. The name was most common in 1990, with 22 births per million (ranked 4.8% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2002.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Bao".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Bao. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 84.2% confident that Bao is pronounced as bow, which has 1 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is baw, at 15.8% confidence, with 1 syllables.
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