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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Dao

Recorded for both sexesMillennial

2025 rank

—

not recorded in 2025

2025 births

—

All-time births

194

peak year 1983

More common than

71%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1983
16 births
Best rank
#2,812
in 1983
First recorded
1981
#5,652 that year
Last recorded
2018
no later published record
Average birth year
1991
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
22 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 198316#2,812Peak
  2. 199116#3,680
  3. 198615#3,161
  4. 198913#4,075
  5. 198712#3,774

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #2,812 in 1983 · peak births 16 in 1983

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 69% boys■ 31% girls

194 boys · 88 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Dao has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.