Cairo

What Cairo means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Cairo yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #942 in 2015, #341 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Cairo?

US: Rising: up from #942 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #597 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2022, when 1,101 boys got the name (#306 that year). First in the US records in 1979.

How common

• About 1 in 1,770 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 2,924 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 3,274 baby boys in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in DC (3.96 per 1,000 boys), DE (2.71 per 1,000 boys), RI (1.92 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Cairo is #341 in the US and #427 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 96.5% of US babies named Cairo were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Kairo1,577 US · 187 E&W
• Kairi42 US · 7 E&W
• Kairoh33 US
• Cary30 US · 3 E&W
• Kiro25 US
• Qairo11 US
• Kayro6 US
• Cari6 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

Spelling variants on Wiktionary

• Caherah
• Al-Caherah

Listed as alternative forms on Wiktionary.

If you like Cairo

Boys

• Hayes#162“brushwood”^*
• Maverick#49Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #184 in 2015, #49 in 2025
• Ezra#20Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #93 in 2015, #20 in 2025. Short and simple: 4 letters
• Matias#170From Biblical Hebrew, meaning “gift of Yahweh”^*
• Arlo#148Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #15 vs #148 in 2025
• Otto#277“wealth, riches”^*

For a sister

• Magnolia#124Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #634 in 2015, #124 in 2025
• Emilia#45Variant of Emily, meaning “rival, emulator”^*
• Nova#46“new”^*
• Catalina#111Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #325 in 2015, #111 in 2025
• Eleanor#12possibly “other”^*
• Freya#176“mistress, lady”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Cairo’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.