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The first name 
Zao

Zao is a male first name.

Zao – a very rare name!

Recently, the name Zao has been given only a handful of times a year and is therefore particularly rare, at least in the US. In recent years, not even one boy in 100,000 has been named Zao. That means that a boy named Zao is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name his whole life.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Zao

Zao has 3 letters 
and begins with a Z

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter Z is quite rare as a first letter for boys' names: only 2.4% of all common boys' names in the US begin with Z. The most common first letters of boys' names, by the way, are J, A and D, while X, U and Q are the least common initials of boys' names.

With only three letters, the name Zao 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.

Therefore: As 2.4% of all boys' names begin with a Z, this initial letter is less common than the other letters on average. Interesting detail: of all the names that begin with Z, Zachary is the most common.

Other names with 
Z, a and o

If you take all the letters in the name Zao – Z, a and o – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Oza or Zoa.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Zao

If your name is Zao 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...

This is how you spell the name Zao

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Zao, you can simply say:

Zebra

Apple

Orange

This is how the name Zao is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Zao in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Zao

Zao

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Zao

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Zao is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

Z
A
O

Have you ever waved the name Zao

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.

Z
A
O

Beeping like crazy...

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. Zao sounds like this: