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Takao

Boys' name

Japanese name; meaning depends on kanji

Takao has been given to 146 babies in the U.S. since 1914. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1922, with 15 recorded.

Babies named Takao, 1935

1 in 348,000

Takao over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Takao: meaning, origin, and history

Japanese name; meaning depends on kanji

Japanese

What Takao means

Takao is documented with more than one possible Japanese character combination. The Latin-letter spelling records a pronunciation; it does not specify one unique kanji spelling or one universal meaning.

Possible character meanings include filial piety, noble, prosperous, man, husband, hero, manly.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Takao is used in Japanese.

Another recorded pronunciation is /tä.kä.o̞/ for Takao.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 146 boys were recorded with the name Takao between 1914 and 1935. Its highest annual count was 15 in 1922; its best national rank was #2,226 in 1922.

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 Takao?

Takao had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1935, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1935
1 in 348,000
6 of 2,089,888 births
Among boys only
1 in 174,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1935
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
241,434 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Takao 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 1935 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 241,434 children born in 1935 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Takao. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Takaos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Takao was born before 1922 — so the typical Takao is around 103 today.

Median birth year
1922
About 103 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
52.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
0
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 52.7% of all recorded uses (77).

Is Takao 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1922 (15)
Years since peak
103
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
41.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,226
1922

Spellings of Takao

Takao is not the most common spelling — Makai is, with 21.6% against Takao's 0.34%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Takao is used

Across 1910–2025, Takao was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 14,286 boys, against 1 in 268,642 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in —).

07 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Hawaii1 in 14,286
  2. 2California1 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. Takao has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Takao by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#2,226
1922
Peak year
1922
15 that year
First recorded
1914
Last recorded
1935
All-time count
146
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Takao

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

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Sibling names for Takao

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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