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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Mao

Recorded for both sexesMillennial

2025 rank

—

not recorded in 2025

2025 births

—

All-time births

285

peak year 1983

More common than

77%

of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1983
17 births
Best rank
#4,397
in 1983
First recorded
1980
#7,144 that year
Last recorded
2016
no later published record
Average birth year
1993
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
28 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 198317#4,397Peak
  2. 199217#5,625
  3. 198616#4,877
  4. 199116#5,842
  5. 198514#5,228

Rank over time

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

Best rank #4,397 in 1983 · peak births 17 in 1983

Boys and girls

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

● 3% boys■ 97% girls

10 boys · 285 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 Mao has ranked, decade by decade

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