Bao
Bao is a baby name of Chinese origin, meaning Treasure, jewel.
What Bao means
Treasure, jewel.
Bao is short — 3 letters, and ends on a vowel, which tends to make a name sound open and carry well when called across a room.
Where Bao comes from
Chinese given names are chosen character by character, and the characters are picked for meaning, tone, and balance. Names are rarely drawn from a fixed list — most are composed fresh for the child.
Bao is recorded as Chinese in origin. Browse other Chinese names.
How popular is Bao?
You will not find Bao in the top 100 baby names at the moment. Plenty of well-known names sit outside the charts; popularity measures how often a name is registered, not how good or how real it is.
The character of Bao
We group Bao under Gem. If that is the quality drawing you to it, the theme link below collects every other name we hold in the same group.
Themes: Gem
Names like Bao
These share Bao's themes, origin, or both — closest first.
- Lin — Forest; fine jade.
- Ling — Delicate; the tinkling of jade.
- Meilin — Beautiful and graceful jade.
- Zhen — Precious; treasure.
- Garnet — The deep-red gem.
- Jet — Deep, glossy black gem.
- Kim — Gold.
- Kohaku — Amber.
- Ngoc — Jade, gem.
- Greta — Pearl.
- Jade — The green gemstone of the side.
- Jasper — Bringer of treasure; the gemstone.