Kao — boys' name

What the Data Says About Kao

The Social Security Administration has registered 467 babies named Kao between 1980 and 2023, spanning 44 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Kao currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 1981, when 40 babies received it in a single year. Kao is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 244 additional births since 1980.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kao performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 242 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Kao shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 213 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Minnesota and Oregon. In total, SSA state-level files list Kao in 4 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kao 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 467 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.