Thao
Last seen for girls in 2017 at #15,902 · #12,008 for boys in 2025, 5 births
Given to girls 84.1% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1984 · 58 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,040since 1975
Thao 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 | — | #12,008 | 5 | |
| 2024 | — | — | ||
| 2023 | — | — | ||
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| 2017 | #15,902 | 5 | — | |
| 2016 | — | — | ||
| 2015 | #16,419 | 5 | — | |
| 2014 | #13,069 | 7 | — | |
| 2013 | #13,150 | 7 | — | |
| 2012 | #16,869 | 5 | — | |
| 2011 | #11,181 | 9 | — | |
| 2010 | #10,451 | 10 | — | |
| 2009 | #13,704 | 7 | — | |
| 2008 | #9,476 | 12 | — | |
| 2007 | #9,007 | 13 | — | |
| 2006 | #12,420 | 8 | — | |
| 2005 | #10,128 | 10 | — | |
| 2004 | #9,264 | 11 | — | |
| 2003 | #6,885 | 16 | — | |
| 2002 | #6,698 | 16 | — | |
| 2001 | #6,067 | 18 | — | |
| 2000 | #5,491 | 20 | — | |
| 1999 | #3,970 | 29 | #9,912 | 5 |
| 1998 | #4,142 | 27 | #9,631 | 5 |
| 1997 | #4,370 | 24 | — | |
| 1996 | #3,149 | 37 | #9,015 | 5 |
| 1995 | #3,670 | 29 | #8,868 | 5 |
| 1994 | #2,701 | 45 | #5,868 | 9 |
| 1993 | #2,725 | 44 | #5,771 | 9 |
| 1992 | #2,576 | 48 | #4,327 | 13 |
| 1991 | #2,843 | 41 | #3,636 | 16 |
| 1990 | #2,402 | 51 | #4,673 | 11 |
| 1989 | #2,879 | 38 | #3,446 | 16 |
| 1988 | #3,165 | 31 | #4,786 | 9 |
| 1987 | #2,024 | 55 | #4,968 | 8 |
| 1986 | #2,265 | 45 | #4,457 | 9 |
| 1985 | #2,100 | 50 | #5,147 | 7 |
| 1984 | #1,837 | 58 | #2,956 | 15 |
| 1983 | #2,097 | 47 | #3,411 | 12 |
| 1982 | #2,645 | 35 | #3,282 | 13 |
| 1981 | #2,447 | 39 | #5,468 | 6 |
| 1980 | #3,215 | 26 | #3,256 | 13 |
| 1979 | #3,541 | 22 | #5,355 | 6 |
| 1978 | #4,679 | 14 | — | |
| 1977 | #5,888 | 10 | — | |
| 1976 | #5,601 | 10 | — | |
| 1975 | #7,984 | 6 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Thao! It came in at #7,984, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 2015–2025, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Thao
- Not published in 2025; last seen 2017
- Debuted 1975
- Peaked 1984 at #1,837 (58 births)
- Births halved by 1995, 11 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 29,031 girls born in 1984 were named Thao (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 345,292 girls born in 2017 (0.00%)
- 40.8% of all girls named Thao (424) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 2024, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 62 | #3,541 (1979) | #5,539 |
| 1980s | 424 | #1,837 (1984) | #2,467 |
| 1990s | 375 | #2,402 (1990) | #3,255 |
| 2000s | 131 | #5,491 (2000) | #8,914 |
| 2010s | 48 | #10,451 (2010) | #13,863 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Thao in 1975
Top girls' names in 1975
More about 1975
girls
1,457,861 girls got a published name in 1975; 1 in 242,977 of them was named Thao, which outranked 24.8% of the 10,618 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #7,173Zenita7
- #7,173Zola7
- #7,173Zonia7
- #7,984Thao6
- #7,984Aaryn6
- #7,984Abagail6
- #7,984Adine6
- #9,067Aaren5
- #9,067Abel5
- #9,067Abraham5
Tied with 1,082 names at #7,984; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.