Bào
given name · Latin script
Meaning: to plane
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Bào is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Vietnam than in any other country, where it is the 35th most common given name.
- VNVietnam≈1 in 488(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 43K
- SGSingapore≈1 in 14K
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
- 204 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 488 (inferred from the name graph)
≈200,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Vietnam, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Bao in VN Vietnam, US United States, GB United Kingdom and 3 more and Bảo in ID Indonesia.
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)
to plane
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bào 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 | #35 | ≈200,000 est. | ≈1 in 488 | listed | Bao | 204 |
| US United States | — | 7,814 | 1 in 43K | 5.3K | Bao | 173 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 80K | — | Bảo | 1 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Bao | 15 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 60K | — | Bao | 28 |
| HK Hong Kong | — | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Bao | 4 |
| SE Sweden | — | 470 | 1 in 22K | 470 | — | 5 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈430 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Bao | 14 |
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; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)
Bào is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Lao, n. crucible; melting pot for metals. 2 x CUA n. printed form. k í M y : LUA zool. type of beetle which lives in the’ M urn and rolls balls of dung. i TIT [odo
as a wordLao-English Dictionary
In Chinese, Hanyu Pinyin reading of 儤
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Bao Zhaob. 414CNChinese poet and official
- Bao Tongb. 1932CNPolicy secretary of former CCP general secretary & Chinese premier Zhao Ziyang (1932–2022)
- Bao Guo'anb. 1946CNChinese actor, professor
- Paw Hee-chingb. 1949CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong actress and programme host
- Bao Xishunb. 1951CNFormerly world’s tallest man
- Peter Paub. 1952USnot in their usual nameHong Kong cinematographer
- Zhenan Baob. 1970CNChinese American chemical engineer
- Bao Chunlaib. 1983CNChinese badminton player
- Bao Shanjub. 1997CNChinese cyclist
- Bao LinghuiCNChinese poet of the Southern Dynasties
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)
Attested in 3 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| VN Vietnam | Vietnamese given names (Kaggle) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Bào mean, and where does it come from?
- to plane Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Bào a male or female name?
- Bào 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 Bào have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 202 thousand people named Bào in Vietnam, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bao.
- How common is the name Bào?
- In the United States, the national register counted 7,814 people named Bào in 2020, about 1 in 43 thousand residents.
- How common is Bào compared with other names?
- In Vietnam, Bào is the 35th most common given name of 73,918 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Bào?
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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, “Bào” — the 35th most common given name in Vietnam. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.