Bao

Bao is the 7,849th most common surname in the United States, shared by 4,053 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 73,700.

By the numbers

People: 4,053
Rank: 7,849th
How common: 1 in 73,700
Per 100,000: 1.4

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Bao described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 91.8%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
White, not Hispanic 3.1%
Black, not Hispanic 1.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.02%

Notable people called Bao

Bao Zheng (999–1062)magistrate, judge, politician, mayor of Kaifeng, Northern Song dynasty
Bao Xishun (born 1951)Formerly world’s tallest man
Noonie Bao (born 1987)Swedish singer and songwriter
Bao Tong (1932–2022)Policy secretary of former CCP general secretary & Chinese premier Zhao Ziyang
Zhenan Bao (born 1970)Chinese American chemical engineer
Bao Shanju (born 1997)Chinese cyclist
Bao Chunlai (born 1983)Chinese badminton player
Zhang Bao (200–184)Yellow Turban leader

People named Bao with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Also a first name

Bao has been given to 1,430 American babies as a first name since 1976, peaking in 1986. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.