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

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

1980 2023 19802023

Key Statistics

Total Births
95
Peak Births
11
Peak Year
1998
First Recorded
1980
Peak Percentile
0.7%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#785
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
#825
Current Rank
#909
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Nao

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

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

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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

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

noh (1 syllable)
5 names 23.7k births
N OW1
NEE-oh (2 syllables)
4 names 2.8k births
N IY1 OW0

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.