Tiao
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Tiao is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: branch, to be extending branches, extend, long.
- USUnited States1 in 2.3M(measured from records)
- BFBurkina Faso≈1 in 86K
- AOAngola≈1 in 187K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 115 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 86K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,200 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Burkina Faso, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Tião in BR Brazil, AO Angola.
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)
branch, to be extending branches, extend, long
Sources 1
- Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tiao 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Tiao | 8 |
| PH Philippines | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 263K | — | Tiao | 12 |
| BF Burkina Faso | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 86K | listed | — | — |
| AO Angola | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 187K | — | Tião | 4 |
| BR Brazil | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | 1.4K | Tião | 30 |
| US United States | 145 | 1 in 2.3M | 145 | Tiao | 115 |
| EE Estonia | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 351K | listed | — | 1 |
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; Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA). 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)
Tiao 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 och, branch, to be extending branches, extend, long
as a wordSchuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)
In Chinese, nonstandard spelling of tiāo
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)
- Diao Zunb. 441not in their usual nameNorthern Wei person CBDB = 11935
- George C. Tiaob. 1933USAmerican econometrician and statistician
- Luc-Adolphe Tiaob. 1954BFPrime Minister of Burkina Faso
- Diao Yi'nanb. 1969CNnot in their usual nameChinese film director and screenwriter
- Diao Aiqingb. 1977CNnot in their usual namevictim of the 1996 Nanjing dismemberment case
- Diao Xiaojuanb. 1986HKnot in their usual namecyclist
- Diao Linyub. 1994CNnot in their usual nameChinese volleyball player
- Assane Diaob. 2005SNnot in their usual nameSenegalese footballer (born 2005)
- Diao Zhengnot in their usual nameNorthern Wei person CBDB = 11936
- Diao Yannengnot in their usual nameSouthern Tang person CBDB = 11925
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 16 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 145 | #119,508 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 138 | #116,835 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 132 | #133,220 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 88 | #69,672 |
| 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
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- What does the name Tiao mean, and where does it come from?
- branch, to be extending branches, extend, long Recorded by Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007).
- In which country does Tiao have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.2 thousand people named Tiao in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tiao.
- How common is the name Tiao?
- In the United States, the national register counted 145 people named Tiao in 2010, about 1 in 2.3 million residents.
What do you want to know about Tiao?
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/tiaoThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Tiao”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.