Rào

given name · Latin script

Meaning: fence

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

Rào is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • INIndia1 in 9.2K(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 28K
  • GDGrenada1 in 28K

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.

India (measured from records)

144,573 people

#732 (measured from records)

of 19M surnames

Sources
48 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 9.2K (inferred from the name graph)

India

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 Rao in IN India, US United States and Rão in AR Argentina, 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)

fence

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 28 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Rào 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 Rào is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India#120144,5731 in 9.2K145KRao48
US United States—11,6721 in 28K15KRao34
AR Argentina—6861 in 66K686Rão1
CH Switzerland—2591 in 32K259—2
BR Brazil—2051 in 1M205Rão1
NO Norway—1501 in 36K150—5
GD Grenada—41 in 28K4——

144,573 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025. 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)

Rào 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 繞 /绕

    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.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Rào 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 Rào mean, and where does it come from?
fence Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
Is Rào a male or female name?
Rào 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 Rào have the most bearers?
In India, the national register counted about 145 thousand people named Rào, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rao.
Where is Rào most common?
Rào is densest in India, where the national register counts about 1 in 9.2 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Rào?
In India, the national register counted 144,573 people named Rào, about 1 in 9.2 thousand residents.
How common is Rào compared with other names?
In India, Rào is the 120th most common surname of 1,492,515 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Rào” — the 120th most common surname in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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