In the entire world, บาว (Bao 
, Baou 
, บาว 
) is a common gender-neutral forename. The first name บาว is characteristic of Macao, where it is quite a common epicene name, Vietnam, where it is quite a common principally male, but very infrequently feminine name, and Hong Kong, where it is quite a rare gender-neutral name. Not in comparison with a country's population, it most frequently occurs in Vietnam, the United States, and India. More prevalently, บาว is the last name as well as the forename.
บาว is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Zhang Bao , the Water Margin character; Bao , the fictional character from The King of Fighters, The King of Fighters 2000; Bao and Bao Sanniang , the fictional character.