All around the world, Cháo (朝 
, 潮 , Cháo 
) is a common mostly boy's, but seldom female given name. The first name Cháo is characteristic of China, where it is quite a rare dominantly male, but seldom girly name, and Vietnam, where it is a very rare epicene name. Also, Cháo is the last name as well as the forename.