Kao

girls:

244 births since 1980

#5472 (4th percentile)

boys:

467 births since 1980

#4119 (10th percentile)

overall:

711 births since 1980

#7028 (9th percentile)

Popularity Trends

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

1980 2023 19802023

Key Statistics

Total Births
244
Peak Births
24
Peak Year
1989
First Recorded
1980
Peak Percentile
2.4%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#766
Current Rank
Female statistics
Total Births
467
Peak Births
40
Peak Year
1981
First Recorded
1980
Peak Percentile
5.1%
Current Percentile
0.0%
Peak Rank
#647
Current Rank
#911
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Kao

Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Kao. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 65.0% confident that Kao is pronounced as kow. The next most likely pronunciation is KAY-oh, at 20.0% confidence.

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65.0%
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20.0%
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15.0%
kow (1 syllable)
Verified
65.0% confidence
K AW1
KAY-oh (2 syllables)
Verified
20.0% confidence
K EY1 OW0
KAH-oh (2 syllables)
15.0% confidence
K AA1 OW0

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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

kal (1 syllable)
5 names 8.6k births
K AE1 L
koh (1 syllable)
6 names 1.4k births
K OW1

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 K 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.