Háo
given name · Latin script
Meaning: to crave (to want strongly)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Háo is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 39K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 32K
- ESSpain1 in 75K
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)
- Sources
- 111 (measured from records)
- 1 in 32K (inferred from the name graph)
8,585 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Hao in US United States, ES Spain.
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)
to crave (to want strongly)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Háo 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.
8,585 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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Háo is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Chinese, Hanyu Pinyin reading of 儫
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Fang Haob. 1479Ming dynasty politician (jin shi 1508)
- Jin Haob. 1510CNMing dynasty person CBDB = 203682
- Tang Haob. 1887CNChinese lawyer
- Fang Haob. 1910TWTaiwanese priest and historian, 1910-1980
- Chen Haob. 1954CNGovernor of Yunnan province
- Choi Hob. 1967KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean film director and screenwriter
- Moses Chanb. 1971AUnot in their usual nameHong Kong actor
- Leo Leeb. 1989HKnot in their usual nameHong Kong singer
- Nham Haob. 1995CNChinese singer
- Lin Chen-Haob. 1997TWTaiwanese judoka (1997-)
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)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Háo mean, and where does it come from?
- to crave (to want strongly) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Háo a male or female name?
- Háo 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 Háo have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 8.6 thousand people named Háo, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hao.
- Where is Háo most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Háo is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 32 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Háo?
- In the United States, the national register counted 8,585 people named Háo in 2020, about 1 in 39 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Háo?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/h%C3%A1oThe 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, “Háo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.