Thạo
given name · Latin script
Meaning: proficient, skilled, experienced
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Thạo is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Vietnam than in any other country, where it is the 33rd most common given name.
- VNVietnam≈1 in 185(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 28K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 20K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Vietnam (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 220 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 185 (inferred from the name graph)
≈530,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Vietnam, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Thao in VN Vietnam, US United States, CA Canada and 2 more.
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)
proficient, skilled, experienced
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Thạo 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VN Vietnam | #33 | ≈530,000 est. | ≈1 in 185 | listed | Thao | 220 |
| US United States | — | 11,993 | 1 in 28K | 27K | Thao | 168 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 111K | listed | — | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 39K | 6 | Thao | 40 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 20K | 1 | — | 1 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 34K | — | Thao | 50 |
| SE Sweden | — | 339 | 1 in 30K | 339 | Thao | 9 |
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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present). 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
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Thạo mean, and where does it come from?
- proficient, skilled, experienced Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Thạo a male or female name?
- Thạo is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Thạo have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 533 thousand people named Thạo in Vietnam, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled thao.
- How common is the name Thạo?
- In the United States, the national register counted 11,993 people named Thạo in 2020, about 1 in 28 thousand residents.
- How common is Thạo compared with other names?
- In Vietnam, Thạo is the 33rd most common given name of 73,918 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Thạo?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/th%E1%BA%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, “Thạo” — the 33rd most common given name in Vietnam. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.