Āo
given name · Latin script
Āo is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 524 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010.
- EEEstonia≈1 in 180K(inferred from the name graph)
- ECEcuador≈1 in 210K
- NONorway1 in 273K
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 Āo itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 136 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 159K (inferred from the name graph)
524 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Australia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled A-O in PH Philippines, NG Nigeria, Aoe in US United States and Ao in AU Australia.
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
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Cited for this meaning 3
- Chinese Surnames Encyclopedia (Section 2)
- Wiktionary
- YorùbáName Dictionary
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Āo is found
(measured from records)Āo 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 | 524 | 1 in 635K | 800 | Aoe | 136 |
| BR Brazil | 301 | 1 in 703K | 301 | — | 1 |
| PH Philippines | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 412K | — | A-O | 36 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 834K | — | A-O | 21 |
| AU Australia | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 159K | 1 | Ao | 83 |
| EC Ecuador | ≈86 est. | ≈1 in 211K | 1 | — | 3 |
| CL Chile | ≈68 est. | ≈1 in 289K | 1 | — | — |
| NO Norway | 20 | 1 in 273K | 20 | — | 2 |
| EE Estonia | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 183K | 7 | — | 1 |
524 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling ao. 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed); INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021). 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Āo?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 524 people named Āo, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled aoe. After it come Brazil, Philippines, Nigeria and Australia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Āo?
- In the United States, the national register counted 524 people named Āo in 2010, about 1 in 635 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Āo?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C4%81oThe 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, “Āo” — ranked 25481st in the United States (Census Bureau). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.