Tae-oh
Origin
Korean
Syllables
2
Peak era
Rare
Today
▬ Steady
Meaning
great and enlightened in common hanja. A fast riser among 2020s Korean boys largely because it doubles as Teo, sliding straight into the international Leo and Theo wave with no English middle name doing the work.
Popularity, 1890–2024
1890srare in US records2020s
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Tae-oh has stayed rare in US records the whole time: no peak decade to name.
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