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Hao

#11,150 in 2025Boys' name

Summer, sky, heaven

Hao has been given to 454 babies in the U.S. since 1976. In 2025 it ranked #11,150 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1992, with 20 recorded.

Babies named Hao, 2025

1 in 553,000

Hao over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
0510152018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Hao: meaning, origin, and history

Summer, sky, heaven

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Hao means

Hao means “summer, sky, heaven”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Hao is used in Chinese.

Another recorded pronunciation is /xaʊ̯/ for Hao.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 449 boys were recorded with the name Hao between 1976 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 20 in 1992; its best national rank was #3,258 in 1992.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #11,087 in 2020 to #11,150 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #6,813 in 2015 to #11,150 in 2025.

In the United States, 5 girls were recorded with the name Hao between 1996 and 1996. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1996; its best national rank was #14,289 in 1996.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Hao?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 285,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#11,150
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Hao sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hao. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Haos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Hao was born before 2000 — so the typical Hao is around 25 today.

Median birth year
2000
About 25 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
29.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
47.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
449
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 29.0% of all recorded uses (130).

Is Hao rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
—
Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
−63
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−4,337
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.50×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
30.0%
Peak was 1992 (20)
Years since peak
33
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
63.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,258
1992

Where Hao is used

Across 1910–2025, Hao was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 603,069 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Hao has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Hao around the world

Where Hao ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2022
    #4,790
    in 2022
  • Scotland
    2011–2016
    #592
    in 2016
  • Ireland
    2008–2014
    #715
    in 2014
  • France
    2001–2019
    #5,649
    in 2019
  • Canada
    1992–2017
    #2,308
    in 2017
  • South Australia
    1994–2013
    #754
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Hao by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#11,150
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 63
Best rank ever
#3,258
1992
Peak year
1992
20 that year
First recorded
1976
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
449
Count in 2025
6

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#14,289
1996
Peak year
1996
5 that year
First recorded
1996
Last recorded
1996
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Hao

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Hao

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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