Gáo
given name · Latin script
Meaning: dipper made from coconut shell
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Gáo is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 27K(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 13K
- SESweden1 in 24K
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)
- Record sources
- 31 (measured from records)
- 1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
12,172 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Gao in US United States, IN India, 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)dipper made from coconut shell
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 27 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Gáo 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.
12,172 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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 Gáo mean, and where does it come from?
- dipper made from coconut shell Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Gáo a male or female name?
- Gáo 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 Gáo have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 12 thousand people named Gáo, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gao.
- Where is Gáo most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Gáo is densest in Finland — about 1 in 13 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Gáo?
- In the United States, the national register counted 12,172 people named Gáo in 2010, about 1 in 27 thousand residents.
- How common is Gáo compared with other names?
- In Macao, Gáo is the 120th most common surname of 436 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Gáo?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/g%C3%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, “Gáo” — the 120th most common surname in Macao. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.