Táo

given name · Latin script

Meaning: apple

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Táo 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 70K(measured from records)
  • SESweden1 in 68K
  • ISIceland1 in 70K

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)

4,759 people, 2020

Sources
46 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 68K (inferred from the name graph)

Sweden

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Tao in US United States, MO Macao.

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)

apple

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Táo 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 Táo is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—4,7591 in 70K6KTao46
ES Spain—3711 in 135K371—4
SE Sweden—1501 in 68K150—4
PL Poland—1091 in 351K97——
DK Denmark—781 in 75K74——
FI Finland—541 in 103K145—1
IS Iceland—51 in 70K5——
MO Macao#573———Tao3

4,759 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; 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); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)

Táo is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Chinese given name168 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Vietnam, China, Thailand

    Languages: Chinese, English, Vietnamese

    Also written Tao, เต, Th, The, Teh

  • Russian surname12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in China, Russia, United States, Ukraine

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

    Also written Тао, Tao, Taõ, Tào, Tạo

  • a separate name6 spellings in the group

    Also written Tạo, Tao, Tảo, Tào, Ťạő

  • Sinhala given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, China, Malaysia

    Also written Tao

  • Khmer given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Cambodia, China

    Also written Tao, Ťǻõ, Ťǻō, Tạo

9 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Táo is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Iloko, man, person, human being, individual; people (_i-_REDUP, _ka-_REDUP)

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

  • In Chinese, Hanyu Pinyin reading of 匋

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In isd, man, human being, people

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

  • In pag, people, persons (_ka-_)

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

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)

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

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

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Táo mean, and where does it come from?
apple Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
Is Táo a male or female name?
Táo 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 Táo have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 4.8 thousand people named Táo, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tao.
Where is Táo most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Táo is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 68 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Táo?
In the United States, the national register counted 4,759 people named Táo in 2020, about 1 in 70 thousand residents.
How common is Táo compared with other names?
In Macao, Táo is the 573rd most common given name of 971 given names 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, “Táo” — the 573rd most common given name in Macao. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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