Tae-O
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Tae-O is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- KRSouth Korea≈1 in 20Kas 태오(inferred from the name graph)
- SESweden1 in 68Kas Tao
- USUnited States1 in 70Kas Tao
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Tae-O 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 24 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 20K (inferred from the name graph)
4,759 named Tao, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
South Korea, est., as 태오
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Tao in US United States and 태오 in KR South Korea.
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.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tae-O 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 4,759as Tao | 1 in 70K | 6K | Tao | 15 |
| KR South Korea | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 20K | 369 | 태오 | 24 |
| ES Spain | 371as Tao | 1 in 135K | 371 | — | 1 |
| SE Sweden | 150as Tao | 1 in 68K | 150 | — | 1 |
| PL Poland | 109as Tao | 1 in 351K | 97 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 78as Tao | 1 in 75K | 74 | — | — |
| IS Iceland | 5as Tao | 1 in 70K | 5 | — | — |
4,759 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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; This page lists the most popular baby names in South Korea for 2025 as published by Haps Magazine Korea.; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); 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)
- Yoo Teob. 1981DEnot in their usual nameGerman-South Korean actor (1981-)
- Kang Tae-ohb. 1994KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean singer and actor
- Theo Jangb. 1994KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actor (1994-)
- Kim Tae-ob. 1997KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean baseball player (1997-)
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)
No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Tae-O a male or female name?
- Tae-O 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 Tae-O have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 4.8 thousand people named Tao, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Tae-O?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,759 people named Tao in 2020, about 1 in 70 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Tae-O?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tae-oThe 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, “Tae-O”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.