Thao
Fewer than 50 people in Poland carry it, split fairly evenly between women and men: one of the rare names here that reads as genuinely unisex. The meaning points to something like "filial, dutiful", or a word for herb or grass, though no Polish source confirms it.
Thao Pronunciation
What Thao means
Where Thao comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
The name Thao comes from Vietnamese, where it is written Thảo, with a tone mark the Polish alphabet has no room for. Two senses sit inside it. One is botanical, the herb or the grass, the green things that grow low and cover ground. The other is moral, filial and dutiful, the care a child owes a parent.
Those two senses meet in the Vietnamese phrase hiếu thảo, which names the duty of a good child toward mother and father. A plant word and a family word share one sound. The dutiful reading is the one most often attached to the name.
In Poland the name has no name-day, no saint, no Polish source that fixes its meaning. A teacher reading it from a class register will guess at the vowel and land somewhere near it. Thao keeps its origin abroad. It means herb, and it means dutiful.
How many people are named Thao
1 in 704495 women in Poland is named Thao. 46 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #5653 among female names.
Thao's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Thao as a middle name
Thao is a first name for 46 women in Poland and a middle name for another 33, a 58/42 split, almost evenly. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1224th, between Sinead (33) and Śnieżka (33).
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#1222 Precious33
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#1223 Sinead33
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#1224 Thao33
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#1225 Śnieżka33
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#1226 Anastazia32