Quick answers about Thao
How many people are named Thao?
An estimated 1,004 living Americans are named Thao.
How rare is Thao?
Thao fell below the SSA's 5-birth reporting floor in 2025. It is extremely rare as a new baby name.
How old is the typical Thao?
The median age of a living American named Thao is approximately 36 years, with most bearers falling between 29 and 42 years old.
Is Thao still popular?
Not especially. Thao has been declining since its 1984 peak and registered 0 births in 2025.
Where is Thao most common?
Thao has its strongest geographic signal in California, where it appears 3.1× more often than the national baseline.
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Where it lives now
Thao is most concentrated in California — about 2.4× the national rate in the 1990s.
States where Thao is given more often than the national average — its present-day heartland.
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