Bao
Last seen for girls in 2002 at #11,108 · #7,679 for boys in 2025, 10 births
Given to boys 59.4% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1986 · 31 births
- Debut · boys
- 8 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 850since 1976
Bao over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #7,679 | 10 | |
| 2024 | — | #6,469 | 13 | |
| 2023 | — | #7,738 | 10 | |
| 2022 | — | #12,330 | 5 | |
| 2021 | — | #7,089 | 11 | |
| 2020 | — | #10,605 | 6 | |
| 2019 | — | #6,777 | 12 | |
| 2018 | — | #7,617 | 10 | |
| 2017 | — | #7,095 | 11 | |
| 2016 | — | #5,124 | 18 | |
| 2015 | — | #4,407 | 22 | |
| 2014 | — | #5,733 | 15 | |
| 2013 | — | #4,981 | 18 | |
| 2012 | — | #5,482 | 16 | |
| 2011 | — | #4,509 | 21 | |
| 2010 | — | #5,741 | 15 | |
| 2009 | — | #4,748 | 20 | |
| 2008 | — | #6,763 | 12 | |
| 2007 | — | #5,901 | 14 | |
| 2006 | — | #8,732 | 8 | |
| 2005 | — | #6,634 | 11 | |
| 2004 | — | #5,246 | 15 | |
| 2003 | — | #4,616 | 17 | |
| 2002 | #11,108 | 8 | #6,088 | 11 |
| 2001 | #12,056 | 7 | #4,890 | 15 |
| 2000 | #11,801 | 7 | #4,389 | 17 |
| 1999 | #12,688 | 6 | #4,341 | 16 |
| 1998 | #6,073 | 16 | #4,873 | 13 |
| 1997 | #9,802 | 8 | #3,455 | 20 |
| 1996 | #5,771 | 16 | #4,022 | 16 |
| 1995 | #4,099 | 25 | #2,685 | 27 |
| 1994 | #3,372 | 33 | #2,502 | 30 |
| 1993 | #3,681 | 29 | #2,509 | 29 |
| 1992 | #2,920 | 40 | #3,604 | 17 |
| 1991 | #2,935 | 39 | #2,344 | 30 |
| 1990 | #2,571 | 46 | #2,553 | 26 |
| 1989 | #3,165 | 33 | #2,784 | 22 |
| 1988 | #2,744 | 38 | #2,509 | 23 |
| 1987 | #3,257 | 28 | #2,272 | 25 |
| 1986 | #4,186 | 19 | #1,917 | 31 |
| 1985 | #2,939 | 31 | #2,116 | 26 |
| 1984 | #2,574 | 36 | #2,529 | 19 |
| 1983 | #2,659 | 33 | #1,955 | 27 |
| 1982 | #3,260 | 26 | #2,207 | 23 |
| 1981 | #2,774 | 32 | #2,204 | 23 |
| 1980 | #4,148 | 18 | #2,729 | 17 |
| 1979 | — | #3,810 | 10 | |
| 1978 | — | #3,400 | 11 | |
| 1977 | #8,444 | 6 | #4,164 | 8 |
| 1976 | — | #4,012 | 8 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Bao! It came in at #4,012, and was given to 8 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 2022, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Bao
- 1,210 spots since 2024 (#6,469 → #7,679)
- 2,926 spots since 2020 (#10,605 → #7,679)
- 3,272 spots since 2015 (#4,407 → #7,679)
- Debuted 1976
- Peaked 1986 at #1,917 (31 births)
- Births halved by 1998, 12 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 59,404 boys born in 1986 were named Bao (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 170,808 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 27.8% of all boys named Bao (236) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 1998, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 37 | #3,400 (1978) | #3,847 |
| 1980s | 236 | #1,917 (1986) | #2,322 |
| 1990s | 224 | #2,344 (1991) | #3,289 |
| 2000s | 140 | #4,389 (2000) | #5,801 |
| 2010s | 158 | #4,407 (2015) | #5,747 |
| 2020s | 55 | #6,469 (2024) | #8,652 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Bao in 1988
Top girls' names in 1988
Top boys' names in 1988
More about 1988
girls
1,780,854 girls got a published name in 1988; 1 in 46,865 of them was named Bao, which outranked 80.2% of the 13,883 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,700Tifani39
- #2,700Victor39
- #2,700Zakiya39
- #2,744Bao38
- #2,744Aiesha38
- #2,744Aliyah38
- #2,744Blaine38
- #2,803Aleasha37
- #2,803Amal37
- #2,803Ambra37
Tied with 58 names at #2,744; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,914,283 boys got a published name in 1988; 1 in 83,230 of them was named Bao, which outranked 70.5% of the 8,495 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 21.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,437Vernard24
- #2,437Zach24
- #2,437Zeb24
- #2,509Bao23
- #2,509Addam23
- #2,509Adil23
- #2,509Adolph23
- #2,599Alen22
- #2,599Alonza22
- #2,599Alston22
Tied with 89 names at #2,509; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.