Hāo
given name · Latin script
Hāo is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Vietnam it is the 19th most common given name. Recorded meaning: From Vietnamese hào.
- CNChina≈1 in 380(inferred from the name graph)
- TWTaiwan≈1 in 1.1K
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 4.5K
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 Hāo itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 290 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 376 (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,700,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
China, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Hao in US United States, CN China, MY Malaysia and 2 more, Huy in VN Vietnam and Heli in FI Finland.
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)From Vietnamese hào.
Cited for this meaning 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
- Chinese Surnames Encyclopedia (Section 2)
- Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Hāo 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈3,700,000 est. | ≈1 in 376 | — | Hao | 161 |
| VN Vietnam | #19 | ≈690,000 est. | ≈1 in 147 | 1 | Huy | 235 |
| TW Taiwan | — | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Hao | 123 |
| FI Finland | — | 16,175as Heli | 1 in 344 | 18K | Heli | 11 |
| US United States | — | 9,857as Hui | 1 in 34K | 56K | Hao | 290 |
| MY Malaysia | #214 | ≈7,900 est. | ≈1 in 4.5K | — | Hao | 66 |
| ES Spain | — | 666 | 1 in 75K | 4.1K | Hao | 50 |
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: The page provides information about common surnames in Vietnam and names that are banned for registration, published by; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Hāo mean, and where does it come from?
- From Vietnamese hào. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Wiktionary and 2 other sources.
- In which country does Hāo have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.7 million people named Hāo in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hao.
- How common is the name Hāo?
- In Spain, the national register counted 666 people named Hāo, about 1 in 75 thousand residents.
- How common is Hāo compared with other names?
- In Vietnam, Hāo is the 19th most common given name of 73,918 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/h%C4%81oThe 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, “Hāo” — the 19th most common given name in Vietnam. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.