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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Kao

Recorded for both sexesMillennial

2025 rank

#9,304

not recorded in 2025

2025 births

8

All-time births

475

2% of them in 2025

More common than

82%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1981
40 births
Best rank
#1,530
in 1981
First recorded
1980
#2,245 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1993
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
32 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 198140#1,530Peak
  2. 199232#2,335
  3. 198330#1,843
  4. 198228#1,960
  5. 198925#2,573

Rank over time

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

Best rank #1,530 in 1981 · peak births 40 in 1981

Boys and girls

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

● 66% boys■ 34% girls

475 boys · 244 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 Kao has ranked, decade by decade

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