Nao — unisex name

What the Data Says About Nao

The Social Security Administration has registered 95 babies named Nao between 1980 and 2021, spanning 42 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Nao currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2021. The name reached its historical peak in 1998, when 11 babies received it in a single year. Nao is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 23 additional births since 2001.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Nao performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 30 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Nao shows a clear decline from its mid-century high.

No etymological entry is currently available for Nao 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 95 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.