Bao is a unisex first name, but it has been given primarily to boys for a number of years.
At least in the US, the name Bao is extremely rare. Recently, only a handful of babies has been named Bao each year. That means it’s extremely unlikely that a boy or girl called Bao will meet someone with the same name. So, Bao is a very special name!
In fact, the name Bao hardly fits the trend of first names. Between 1976 and 1999, young parents changed that a bit. For many years, Bao wasn't given at all (or at least less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), but by 1983, the name was more popular than ever. Although the name never ranked higher than position 2,813, 60 parents chose it in 1983 as a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Bao, you were already special when you were born - and you did your best to become a trendsetter.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Bao was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, expectant parents chose the rare name Bao a few times. Among all newborn babies, it ranked 25,193, for a total of 5 newborns. The name is still more common than it was most time of the last century, when it didn't appear at all for a many years. As Bao seems to be a bit more popular in the middle of the 20th century, it proves to remain a great rarity in 2022.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter B is neither particularly common nor particularly rare as a first letter for given names: 3.7% of all common first names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of given names, by the way, are A, J and K, while U, X and Q are the least common initials of first names.
With only three letters, the name Bao is obviously very short. In fact, only 1.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly three letters. Just 0.2% of all first names are even shorter and only have two letters, while nearly 99% of all boys’ and girls’ names use more than three letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that with 3.7%, B as the first letter in given names is almost as common as all 26 letters on average.
If your name is Bao and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Bao, you can simply say:
Butterfly
Apple
Orange
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Bao
Bao
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
B
A
O
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
B
A
O
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Bao sounds like this:
