Dao

girls:

88 births since 1980

#5628 (2nd percentile)

boys:

194 births since 1981

#4392 (4th percentile)

overall:

282 births since 1980

#7457 (4th percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Dao".

1980 2018 19802018

Key Statistics

Total Births
88
Peak Births
10
Peak Year
1982
First Recorded
1980
Peak Percentile
0.6%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#775
Current Rank
Female statistics
Total Births
194
Peak Births
16
Peak Year
1983
First Recorded
1981
Peak Percentile
1.6%
Current Percentile
0.0%
Peak Rank
#676
Current Rank
#913
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Dao

Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Dao. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 86.4% confident that Dao is pronounced as dow. The next most likely pronunciation is daw, at 13.6% confidence.

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86.4%
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13.6%
dow (1 syllable)
Verified
86.4% confidence
D AW1
daw (1 syllable)
13.6% confidence
D AO1

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Dao. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Dao, please vote using the thumbs up button.

dal (1 syllable)
2 names 622 births
D AE1 L

Names with this pronunciation:

DEE-oh (2 syllables)
2 names 463 births
D IY1 OW0

Names with this pronunciation:

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like D AW1) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.