Kairo

“Spelling of Cairo — from Arabic al-Qāhira, the victorious” — Arabic (place name) origin

Boy's name · #226 in the US (2025) · Trending

Kairo is climbing: on the charts since 1995, it reached #226 in 2025 — its strongest showing yet, with about 1,600 boys given the name last year. Roughly 11,000 have carried it all-time. Together with its spelling variant Cairo (#341), Kairo would rank around #141 with about 2,500 births last year — the newborns split about 62/38 between Kairo and Cairo.

Around the world: about 1 in 450 boys in New Zealand (2025) · about 1 in 520 boys in Puerto Rico (2025) · about 1 in 1,500 boys in England & Wales (2025).

Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 41 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.

Famous Kairos

Kairo Mitchell — Grenadian association football player (born 1997)
Kairo Coore — Canadian soccer player (born 2001)
Kairo McLean — Canadian reggae musician

Similar names: Cairo · Baker · Kayce · Leandro · Muhammad · Kanan

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