Chao
A Chinese name that means "surpass" or "leap over". Fewer than sixty people in Poland carry it, nearly all of them men, and most Poles will never meet one.
Chao Pronunciation
Chao is pronounced KHAH-o (/ˈxaɔ/).
What Chao means
Where Chao comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Chao comes to Poland from Chinese, and it holds its Chinese sense on the page. The written character 超 (chāo) means to surpass, to exceed, to leap over an obstacle. It turns up in ordinary words like 超过, to overtake, and 超人, the superhuman. A child called Chao carries a verb of motion, one that clears whatever sits in the road.
The origin here is filed simply as other. That is honest. The name did not pass through Latin or Greek before it reached a Polish class register, and it brings no diminutive and no Polish variant.
At a Warsaw urząd the spelling stays short. Four letters, one syllable. A clerk reads it once and gets it right. The meaning stays fixed: surpass, leap over.
How many people are named Chao
1 in 435636 men in Poland is named Chao. 54 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #5059 among male names.
Chao as a middle name
Chao is a first name for 54 men in Poland and a middle name for another 2, a 96/4 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 7418th, between Chandu (2) and Charalambos (2).
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#7416 Chandrika2
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#7417 Chandu2
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#7418 Chao2
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#7419 Charalambos2
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#7420 Chari2