Dao
Meaning
star
Popularity, 1890–2024
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Dao has stayed rare in US records the whole time: no peak decade to name.
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Popularity in Brazil
119 people · the #36,473 first name in Brazil · about 1 in 1,000,000 · median age 52
Among people named Dao living in Brazil at the 2022 census, more were born in the 1970s than in any other decade.
Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022
When you meet Dao
Most people given the name Dao in the United States were born between 1980 and 1999. The Dao you meet today is most often in her 30s or 40s.
Estimated from US Social Security birth registrations and typical lifespans; a rough guide, not a rule.
The Dao deep dive
Whether you’re naming a baby or exploring your own name’s history, this is a personal letter, not a list: where Dao truly comes from, how it traveled, and what a century of records reveals. If you have grown a tree on nametree, it also considers how Dao fits with your family’s names and surname.
Where Dao travels
Vietnamese · peach blossom; written Đào. The Tết flower of northern Vietnam, where a blooming peach branch marks the new year as the yellow mai blossom does in the south; a vintage floral pick whose plain US spelling coincides with an unrelated Chinese name
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