Thao — unisex name

What the Data Says About Thao

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,040 babies named Thao between 1975 and 2017, spanning 43 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Thao currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2017. The name reached its historical peak in 1984, when 58 babies received it in a single year. Thao is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 192 additional births since 1979.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Thao performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 424 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Thao shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 289 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Louisiana. In total, SSA state-level files list Thao in 5 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Thao 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 1,040 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.