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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Tao

Recorded for both sexesGen Z

2025 rank

#5,824

up +3,938 places

2025 births

16

up +8 births

All-time births

433

4% of them in 2025

More common than

81%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
2021
20 births
Best rank
#3,663
in 1973
First recorded
1970
#4,671 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
2005
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
42 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 202120#4,913Peak
  2. 201617#5,530
  3. 201016#5,705
  4. 202216#5,841
  5. 202516#5,824

Rank over time

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

Best rank #3,663 in 1973 · peak births 20 in 2021

Boys and girls

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

● 98% boys■ 2% girls

433 boys · 10 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 Tao has ranked, decade by decade

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