Thảo
given name · Latin script
Meaning: grasses and herbs (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries
Thảo is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Vietnam than in any other country, where it is the 61st most common given name.
- VNVietnam≈1 in 200(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 28K
- SESweden1 in 30K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.
- Vietnam (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 291 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 199 (inferred from the name graph)
≈510,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: 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 US United States, AO Angola.
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)grasses and herbs
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Thảo 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 | #61 | ≈510,000 est. | ≈1 in 199 | listed | Thảo | 92 |
| US United States | — | 11,993 | 1 in 28K | 27K | Thao | 291 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 159K | listed | Thảo | 1 |
| SE Sweden | — | 339 | 1 in 30K | 339 | — | 6 |
| AO Angola | #393 | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 211K | — | Thao | 1 |
| MO Macao | #640 | ≈42 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Thảo | 1 |
| IS Iceland | — | 10 | 1 in 35K | 10 | — | — |
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 vn-kaggle-given register; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Lý Thanh Thảob. 1982VNVietnamese actress
- Thao Nguyenb. 1984USAmerican singer-songwriter
- Dang Thu Thaob. 1991VNMiss Vietnam 2012 winner
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Thảo mean, and where does it come from?
- grasses and herbs Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Thảo a male or female name?
- Thảo is a female 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.
- Which countries have the most people named Thảo?
- Mondonomo estimates about 509 thousand people named Thảo in Vietnam, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled thảo. After it come United States, Indonesia, Sweden and Angola; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Thảo?
- In the United States, the national register counted 11,993 people named Thảo in 2020, about 1 in 28 thousand residents.
- How common is Thảo compared with other names?
- In Vietnam, Thảo is the 61st most common given name of 73,918 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Thảo?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/th%E1%BA%A3oThe 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, “Thảo” — the 61st most common given name in Vietnam. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.