Mao
Mao is a unisex Japanese given name. People with the name include:Mao Abe , Japanese singer-songwriter Mao Arai , Japanese judoka Mao Asada , Japanese figure skater Mao Daichi , Japanese actress Mao Denda , Japanese singer-songwriter Mao Fujita , Japanese male pianist Mao Hamasaki , former Japanese adult actress and discjockey Mao Hosoya , Japanese male footballer Mao Ichimichi , Japanese actress…
- Japanese
Meaning & Origin of Mao
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Mao is a unisex Japanese given name. People with the name include:Mao Abe , Japanese singer-songwriter Mao Arai , Japanese judoka Mao Asada , Japanese figure skater Mao Daichi , Japanese actress Mao Denda , Japanese singer-songwriter Mao Fujita , Japanese male pianist Mao Hamasaki , former Japanese adult actress and discjockey Mao Hosoya , Japanese male footballer Mao Ichimichi , Japanese actress…
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Japanese
The Story of Mao
Mao first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby girl name in 1980, with 9 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 1983: 17 births, good for #4,286 nationwide. About 42% of every Mao on record arrived during the 1980s, its defining decade. Mao last appeared in the published SSA data in 2016, with 5 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 285 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1980s to the 2020s.
Popularity Over Time
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About the name Mao
Mao is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1980 and has accumulated 285 births in the dataset. Mao's peak popularity came in 1983 when it ranked #4,286. Use the chart and map above to compare Mao's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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