Meaning not yet researched.
Bao: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 10 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,926 in 1986.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,926 in 1986; #7,740 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Bao in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#7,740 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1986, at #1,926.
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Bao: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 10 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,926 in 1986 · most boys in one year: 31 (1986).
In 2025, 10 US boys were named Bao, making it the 7,740th most common boys’ name of the year, down 1,230 places from #6,510 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 13 boys named Bao in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,926, reached in 1986. That year also had the most boys given the name: 31. For comparison, it was #4,417 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Fewer than five US girls were named Bao in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #2,575, reached in 1990. That year also had the most girls given the name: 46. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Bao in 50 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1976 with 8 babies. In all, 1,430 US babies have been given the name, 41% of them girls and 59% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 530 babies named Bao.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 106 US boys were named Bao; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 18. In 2025 that was about 1 in 170,808 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Bay, Baya and Baye are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Bay (727), Baya (398), Baye (56), Bae (33), Bahe (32), Bai (15), Bayou (14), Baha (11), Bah (11), Ba (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Bao in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 10 | #7,740 |
| 2024 | — | — | 13 | #6,510 |
| 2023 | — | — | 10 | #7,803 |
| 2022 | — | — | 5 | #12,580 |
| 2021 | — | — | 11 | #7,145 |
| 2020 | — | — | 6 | #10,758 |
| 2019 | — | — | 12 | #6,823 |
| 2018 | — | — | 10 | #7,684 |
| 2017 | — | — | 11 | #7,154 |
| 2016 | — | — | 18 | #5,152 |
| 2015 | — | — | 22 | #4,417 |
| 2014 | — | — | 15 | #5,765 |
| 2013 | — | — | 18 | #4,999 |
| 2012 | — | — | 16 | #5,505 |
| 2011 | — | — | 21 | #4,522 |
| 2010 | — | — | 15 | #5,764 |
| 2009 | — | — | 20 | #4,766 |
| 2008 | — | — | 12 | #6,801 |
| 2007 | — | — | 14 | #5,940 |
| 2006 | — | — | 8 | #8,812 |
| 2005 | — | — | 11 | #6,692 |
| 2004 | — | — | 15 | #5,272 |
| 2003 | — | — | 17 | #4,630 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,281 | 11 | #6,131 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,250 | 15 | #4,914 |
| 2000 | 7 | #11,955 | 17 | #4,411 |
| 1999 | 6 | #12,894 | 16 | #4,361 |
| 1998 | 16 | #6,105 | 13 | #4,898 |
| 1997 | 8 | #9,918 | 20 | #3,460 |
| 1996 | 16 | #5,801 | 16 | #4,029 |
| 1995 | 25 | #4,111 | 27 | #2,689 |
| 1994 | 33 | #3,376 | 30 | #2,513 |
| 1993 | 29 | #3,688 | 29 | #2,518 |
| 1992 | 40 | #2,926 | 17 | #3,620 |
| 1991 | 39 | #2,943 | 30 | #2,348 |
| 1990 | 46 | #2,575 | 26 | #2,557 |
| 1989 | 33 | #3,175 | 22 | #2,795 |
| 1988 | 38 | #2,746 | 23 | #2,520 |
| 1987 | 28 | #3,261 | 25 | #2,277 |
| 1986 | 19 | #4,203 | 31 | #1,926 |
| 1985 | 31 | #2,945 | 26 | #2,119 |
| 1984 | 36 | #2,577 | 19 | #2,537 |
| 1983 | 33 | #2,665 | 27 | #1,960 |
| 1982 | 26 | #3,266 | 23 | #2,212 |
| 1981 | 32 | #2,785 | 23 | #2,208 |
| 1980 | 18 | #4,160 | 17 | #2,736 |
| 1979 | — | — | 10 | #3,831 |
| 1978 | — | — | 11 | #3,414 |
| 1977 | 6 | #8,539 | 8 | #4,208 |
| 1976 | — | — | 8 | #4,039 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).