Тао
surname · Cyrillic script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries
Тао is a surname written in the Cyrillic script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- CNChina≈1 in 1.3Mfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- RURussia≈1 in 2.5Mfew records
- FIFinland1 in 49Kas 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 Тао 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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 66 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.3M (inferred from the name graph)
4,286 named Tao, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
China, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Tao in US United States.
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 across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Тао 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 | 4,286as Tao | 1 in 78K | 6K | Tao | 14 |
| CN China | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | — | Тао | 14 |
| IN India | 683as Tao | 1 in 1.9M | 683 | — | 1 |
| ES Spain | 203as Tao | 1 in 246K | 371 | — | 1 |
| BR Brazil | 199as Tao | 1 in 1.1M | 199 | — | — |
| FI Finland | 114as Tao | 1 in 49K | 145 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 66as Tao | 1 in 127K | 66 | — | 1 |
| DK Denmark | 49as Tao | 1 in 120K | 74 | — | — |
| NO Norway | 34as Tao | 1 in 161K | 80 | — | — |
4,286 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)- Tao Yuanmingb. 365CNChinese poet (365–427)
- Tuoba Taob. 408CNNorthern Wei emperor
- Tao Hongjingb. 456CNChinese polymath, writer, alchemist and astronomer, founder of Shangqing Taoism (456–536)
- David III of Taob. 930Georgian prince
- Tao Zhub. 1908CNChinese politician (1908-1969)
- Michael Daob. 1963CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong actor
- David Taob. 1969TWTaiwanese singer-songwriter
- Tao Hongb. 1972CNChinese actress and former synchronized swimmer (1972- )
- Terence Taob. 1975AUAustralian-American mathematician
- Chou Taob. 1988CNgymnast
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
- In which country does Тао have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 4.3 thousand people named Tao, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Тао?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,286 people named Tao in 2010, about 1 in 78 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BEThe 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, “Тао”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.