Mabao
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/məbaʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mabao is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 46K(inferred from the name graph)
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 345K
- SGSingapore≈1 in 2.2M
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Mabao itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 31 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 46K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,400 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled มาเบ้า in TH Thailand.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mabao 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 46K | — | Mabao | 31 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈770 est. | ≈1 in 345K | — | Mabao | 4 |
| TH Thailand | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 312K | #495,799 | มาเบ้า | 29 |
| US United States | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 45M | listed | Mabao | 18 |
| CA Canada | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 11M | — | Mabao | 5 |
| SG Singapore | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 2.2M | — | Mabao | 2 |
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 us-wru-surnames-voterfile register. 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)
Mabao 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 Cebuano, a surname from Cebuano
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swahili, plural of bao
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 1 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Mabao?
- A machine transcription gives /məbaʊ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Mabao have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.4 thousand people named Mabao in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mabao.
- How common is the name Mabao?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2,400 people in the Philippines have Mabao as their first surname, about 1 in 46 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
What do you want to know about Mabao?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mabaoThe 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, “Mabao”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.