Terao
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Terao is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 1.7M(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 1.8M
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)
- Sources
- 29 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.7M (inferred from the name graph)
187 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
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)
Terao 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 | 187 | 1 in 1.8M | 210 | Terao | 19 |
| BR Brazil | 123 | 1 in 1.7M | 123 | Terao | 29 |
| PH Philippines | — | — | — | Terao | 1 |
| PE Peru | — | — | — | Terao | 6 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | 16 | — | 2 |
187 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral 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)
Terao is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Serbo-Croatian, masculine singular active past participle of terati
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)
- Hisashi Teraob. 1855JPJapanese astronomer
- Shōji Teraob. 1913JPJapanese lawyer
- Jūkichi Unob. 1914JPnot in their usual nameJapanese actor (1914-1988)
- Mutsuo Teraob. 1929JPJapanese businessperson
- Michihito Teraob. 1940JPJapanese engineer
- Akira Teraob. 1947JPJapanese actor and musician (born 1947)
- Miki Teraob. 1969JPbadminton player
- Ryukichi Teraob. 1971JPJapanese scholar of Latin American literature and translator (1971-)
- Satoru Teraob. 1975JPJapanese speed skater
- Juliana Teraob. 1991BRBrazilian chess player
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 9 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 210 | #83,301 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 207 | #94,713 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 187 | #97,210 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 123 | #54,074 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 16 | #104,899 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Terao have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 187 people named Terao, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled terao.
- Where is Terao most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Terao is densest in Brazil — about 1 in 1.7 million people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Terao?
- In the United States, the national register counted 187 people named Terao in 2010, about 1 in 1.8 million residents.
What do you want to know about Terao?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/teraoThe 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, “Terao”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.