Dao — boys' name

What the Data Says About Dao

The Social Security Administration has registered 194 babies named Dao between 1981 and 2018, spanning 38 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Dao currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2018. The name reached its historical peak in 1983, when 16 babies received it in a single year. Dao is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 88 additional births since 1980.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Dao performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 96 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Dao shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 34 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Dao in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Dao in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 194 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.