Nao

girls:

95 births since 1980

#5621 (2nd percentile)

boys:

23 births since 2001

#4563 (0th percentile)

overall:

118 births since 1980

#7621 (1st percentile)

Popularity Trends

The name Nao is the #7,621 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 118 recorded births since 1980. This represents the 1.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,621 (1.6% percentile) for all time with 95 births since 1980. For boys, it ranks #4,563 (0.4% percentile) for all time with 23 births since 2001.

Nao first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1980 (1980 for girls and 2001 for boys). Birth data for Nao is available in 17 out of the 44 years between 1980 and 2023 (15 years for girls and 4 years for boys). 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 Nao has been given predominantly to girls, with 80.5% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 0.0% of babies named Nao were girls.

For girls, Nao reached its peak popularity in 1998, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #868) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1998, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.7% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2021.

For boys, Nao reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #909) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). In recent years, the popularity of this name for boys has remained relatively stable. Currently, Nao is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #909 (0.2% percentile) with 4 births per million.

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

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Key Statistics

Total Births
95
Peak Births
11
Peak Year
1998
First Recorded
1980
Peak Percentile
0.7%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#868
Current Rank
Female statistics
Total Births
23
Peak Births
7
Peak Year
2023
First Recorded
2001
Peak Percentile
0.2%
Current Percentile
0.2%
Peak Rank
#909
Current Rank
#909
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Nao

Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Nao. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.

Our model is 44.1% confident that Nao is pronounced as NAY-oh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is now, at 29.4% confidence, with 1 syllables.

2
44.1%
1
29.4%
2
20.6%
2
5.9%
NAY-oh (2 syllables)
44.1% confidence
N EY1 OW0
now (1 syllable)
29.4% confidence
N AW1
NAI-oh (2 syllables)
20.6% confidence
N AY1 OW0
NAH-oh (2 syllables)
5.9% confidence
N AA1 OW0

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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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 N EY1 OW0) 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.

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