Xao
given name · Latin script
Used for both men and women· registers list it under both sexes; no split published
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Xao is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.1M(measured from records)
- AGAntigua & Barbuda≈1 in 46K
- SGSingapore≈1 in 1.7M
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 70 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 46K (inferred from the name graph)
297 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Antigua & Barbuda, est.
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.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Xao 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 | — | 297 | 1 in 1.1M | 184 | Xao | 70 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈31 est. | ≈1 in 2.1M | — | Xao | 5 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 2.1M | — | Xao | 7 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 3.1M | — | Xao | 2 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 2.4M | — | Xao | 6 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 1.7M | — | Xao | 4 |
| AG Antigua & Barbuda | #697 | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 46K | — | Xao | 1 |
297 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. 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)Xao is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
ISO 639-3 language code for Khao.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In mhx, elephant
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In tyz, spider
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.
Evidence
(measured from records)3 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.
Reference works 1
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
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
- Is Xao a male or female name?
- Xao is used for both men and women. National registers that list it by sex count it under both: United States (Census Bureau, 2020). We don't publish a percentage split.
- In which country does Xao have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 297 people named Xao, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled xao.
- How common is the name Xao?
- In the United States, the national register counted 297 people named Xao in 2020, about 1 in 1.1 million residents.
- How common is Xao compared with other names?
- In Antigua & Barbuda, Xao is the 697th most common given name of 3,327 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/xaoThe 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, “Xao” — the 697th most common given name in Antigua & Barbuda. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.