Chảo

given name · Latin script

Meaning: a pan

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Chảo is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 32K(measured from records)
  • UYUruguay1 in 13K
  • ESSpain1 in 23K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

10,398 people, 2010

Sources
32 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)

Uruguay

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Chao in US United States, ES Spain and Chão in BR Brazil.

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)

a pan

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Chảo 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.

Where Chảo is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States10,3981 in 32K11KChao32
ES Spain2,1371 in 23K2.1KChao5
AR Argentina4811 in 95K481——
BR Brazil3311 in 640K331Chão1
UY Uruguay2521 in 13K252——
CH Switzerland401 in 210K40—2

10,398 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Chảo is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname16 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Canada, Australia, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Chao, Cháo, Chão, Chào, Çhàö

  • Chinese surname19 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Taiwan, China, Canada

    Also written Chao, Cháo, Chäö, Châo, Chào

  • Malay surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Malaysia, Indonesia, United States, China

    Languages: Malay, Indonesian

    Also written Chao, Chào

2 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Chảo under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Chảo mean, and where does it come from?
a pan Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
Is Chảo a male or female name?
Chảo is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Chảo have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 10 thousand people named Chảo, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled chao.
Where is Chảo most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Chảo is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 13 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Chảo?
In the United States, the national register counted 10,398 people named Chảo in 2010, about 1 in 32 thousand residents.

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The 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, “Chảo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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