Ао
org · Cyrillic script
Meaning: JSC, joint-stock company
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Ао is a name written in the Cyrillic script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- RURussia≈1 in 4.1M(inferred from the name graph)
- KZKazakhstan≈1 in 3.5M
- SESweden1 in 567Kas Ao
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Ао itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 49 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.5M (inferred from the name graph)
372 named Ao, 2020
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Kazakhstan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)JSC, joint-stock company
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Ао counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 372as Ao | 1 in 894K | 800 | — | 5 |
| ES Spain | 38as Ao | 1 in 1.3M | 38 | — | — |
| RU Russia | ≈34 est. | ≈1 in 4.1M | — | Ао | 49 |
| SE Sweden | 18as Ao | 1 in 567K | 18 | — | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | 6as Ao | 1 in 2.9M | 6 | — | 1 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 3.5M | 2 | Ао | 5 |
| DK Denmark | 4as Ao | 1 in 1.5M | 4 | — | — |
| LV Latvia | 1as Ao | 1 in 1.9M | 1 | — | — |
372 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Bureau of National Statistics — birth registrations; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Temsüla Aob. 1945INIndian writer (1945–2022)
- Ao Yu-hsiangb. 1956TWTaiwanese comic artist
- Ao Litingb. 1963CNChinese Go player
- Pierre Ngob. 1976CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong actor and host
- Ao Shenb. 1986CNChinese film director
- Ao Feifanb. 1989CNassociation football player
- Ao Huib. 1997CNChinese weightlifter
- Ao I Kuanb. 1999CNbadminton player
- Peter Ngornot in their usual nameHong Kong cinematographer, actor and film director
- Ao YingMing dynasty person CBDB = 130301
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence
(measured from records)2 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KZ Kazakhstan | Bureau of National Statistics — birth registrations | — | 2 | #44,248 |
Reference works 1
- Wikipedia surname tokens
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ао mean, and where does it come from?
- JSC, joint-stock company Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Ао have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 372 people named Ao, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Ао?
- In the United States, the national register counted 372 people named Ao in 2020, about 1 in 894 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%D0%B0%D0%BEThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ао”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.