Hao
given name · Vietnamese · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Hao is a given name, most frequently recorded in Vietnam, where it is the 19th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Vietnamese and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Chinese from the name of Hao village, in present-day Shanxi province.
- VNVietnam1 in 108◐
- FIFinland1 in 344
- SGSingapore1 in 3K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈29K ●
- 4 ●
- Sources
- 265 ●
- 1 in 344 ◐
across 6 countries
recorded for this name
557K records
Official registry-verified
Finland
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Huy in VN Vietnam, NO Norway, หอ in TH Thailand and Ho in IN India.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
Chinese from the name of Hao village, in present-day Shanxi province. The penultimate king of the Shang dynasty, Di Yi (1191-1155 bc) granted this place to one of his sons. Descendants of this son eventually adopted Hao as their surname.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VN Vietnam | #19 | 655,484 | 343K rec. | — | 1 | Huy | 228 |
| CN China | — | 22,396 | 8.2K rec. | — | listed | Hao | 142 |
| MY Malaysia | #258 | 17,906 | 23K rec. | — | — | Hao | 60 |
| FI Finland | — | 16,175△ | 69 rec. | 1 in 344 | 18K | Hao | 13 |
| TH Thailand | — | 12,735 | 11K rec. | — | #776,638 | หอ | 105 |
| AU Australia | #932 | 9,537 | 12K rec. | — | 4 | Hao | 134 |
| US United States | — | 8,796 | 116K rec. | 1 in 38K | 56K | Hao | 265 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 5,602 | 6.2K rec. | — | 4 | Hao | 69 |
| TW Taiwan | — | 4,794 | 3.2K rec. | — | — | Hao | 117 |
| CA Canada | — | 3,661 | 4.6K rec. | — | 1 | Hao | 100 |
| SG Singapore | #192 | 3,553 | 5.4K rec. | — | — | Hao | 82 |
| FR France | — | 2,112 | 2.6K rec. | — | 799 | Hao | 161 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Vietnamese105K36%
- English62K21%
- Chinese61K21%
- 14K5%
- Spanish9.2K3%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Vietnamese | 105,435 | 36% |
| English | 61,744 | 21% |
| Chinese | 61,302 | 21% |
| 14,063 | 5% | |
| Spanish | 9,156 | 3% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Hao is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A former currency unit of Vietnam, worth one tenth of a dong.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Vietnamese, to greatly consume (energy, etc.)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Chinese, nonstandard spelling of hāo
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In cdo, a long flat crustacean with short feelers
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
In Hawaiian, all native species of a genus of small trees (_Rauvolfia_) related to the _maile_ and the _hōlei_. Four or five narrow leaves are borne together at joints of branches; many small, yellowish flowers develop, and then small, black, flattened, twinned, inverted, heart-shaped fruits
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1976 | 5 |
| 1980 | 6 |
| 1981 | 13 |
| 1982 | 5 |
| 1983 | 10 |
| 1984 | 9 |
| 1985 | 6 |
| 1986 | 6 |
| 1987 | 12 |
| 1988 | 14 |
| 1989 | 10 |
| 1990 | 11 |
| 1991 | 12 |
| 1992 | 20 |
| 1993 | 9 |
| 1994 | 7 |
| 1995 | 15 |
| 1996 | 9 |
| 1997 | 12 |
| 1998 | 14 |
| 1999 | 13 |
| 2000 | 16 |
| 2001 | 5 |
| 2002 | 19 |
| 2003 | 10 |
| 2004 | 18 |
| 2005 | 8 |
| 2006 | 18 |
| 2007 | 12 |
| 2008 | 17 |
| 2009 | 7 |
| 2010 | 9 |
| 2011 | 16 |
| 2012 | 13 |
| 2013 | 7 |
| 2014 | 7 |
| 2015 | 12 |
| 2016 | 8 |
| 2017 | 12 |
| 2020 | 6 |
| 2021 | 5 |
| 2025 | 6 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 42 years between 1976–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Meng Haoranb. 690CNnot in their usual namepoet from the Tang Dynasty
- Hiro Sagab. 1914CNnot in their usual nameJapanese noblewoman (1914–1987)
- Hao Wangb. 1921USChinese-American mathematician and philosopher (1921–1995)
- Benny Chanb. 1969CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong actor and singer
- Moses Chanb. 1971AUnot in their usual nameHong Kong actor
- Ning Haob. 1977CNChinese film director and screenwriter (born 1977)
- Jon M. Chub. 1979USnot in their usual nameAmerican filmmaker
- Chen Haob. 1979CNactress and singer
- Wang Haob. 1989CNChinese racewalker
- Zhang Haob. 2000CNChinese singer and dancer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 65 sources across 36 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 6.6K | #2,728 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 4K | #8,032 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.5K | #12,622 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2K | #2,728 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.3K | #19,695 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 666 | #3,779 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 639 | #1,758 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 314 | #3,803 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 271 | #2,911 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 154 | #5,758 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 151 | #20,498 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 151 | #20,385 |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 380 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Hao?
- We estimate roughly 29 thousand people bear Hao (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.
- In which country does Hao have the most bearers?
- Hao is most frequently recorded in Vietnam, where it is most often spelled huy.
- How common is Hao compared with other names?
- In Vietnam, Hao is the 19th most common given name of 72,115 given names recorded there.
- Is Hao a male or female name?
- Hao is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- What does the name Hao mean?
- Recorded meaning: Chinese from the name of Hao village, in present-day Shanxi province.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Hao” — the 19th most common given name in Vietnam. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.