girls:
36 births since 1983
#5680 (1st percentile)
boys:
284 births since 1971
#4302 (6th percentile)
overall:
320 births since 1971
#7419 (4th percentile)
The name Chao is the #7,419 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 320 recorded births since 1971. This represents the 4.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 4.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,302 (6.1% percentile) for all time with 284 births since 1971. For girls, it ranks #5,680 (0.6% percentile) for all time with 36 births since 1983.
Chao first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1971 (1971 for boys and 1983 for girls). Birth data for Chao is available in 27 out of the 43 years between 1971 and 2013 (27 years for boys and 6 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Chao has been given predominantly to boys, with 88.8% of all recorded births being male. In 2013, 100.0% of babies named Chao were boys.
For boys, Chao reached its peak popularity in 1985, achieving the 1.9% percentile (ranked #682) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 1985, with 9 births per million (ranked 1.9% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2013.
For girls, Chao reached its peak popularity in 1985, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #797) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1985, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1992.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Chao".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Chao. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Chao is pronounced as chow, which has 1 syllables.
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