# Cairo (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/cairo/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 9,999 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 9,415 / 584 (6% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 1,604, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 12 | 9,269 |
| 2012 | 10 | 10,588 |
| 2013 | 6 | 14,961 |
| 2014 | 14 | 8,137 |
| 2015 | 8 | 12,042 |
| 2016 | 16 | 7,321 |
| 2017 | 14 | 7,925 |
| 2018 | 29 | 4,683 |
| 2019 | 72 | 2,456 |
| 2020 | 53 | 3,027 |
| 2021 | 68 | 2,560 |
| 2022 | 56 | 2,966 |
| 2023 | 48 | 3,338 |
| 2024 | 38 | 3,906 |
| 2025 | 35 | 4,085 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 93 | 1,637 |
| 2012 | 105 | 1,526 |
| 2013 | 157 | 1,149 |
| 2014 | 173 | 1,103 |
| 2015 | 223 | 942 |
| 2016 | 267 | 844 |
| 2017 | 404 | 639 |
| 2018 | 543 | 522 |
| 2019 | 976 | 342 |
| 2020 | 918 | 348 |
| 2021 | 1,020 | 325 |
| 2022 | 1,101 | 306 |
| 2023 | 1,010 | 331 |
| 2024 | 949 | 354 |
| 2025 | 965 | 341 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 3 | 3,795 |
| 1998 | 3 | 3,848 |
| 2000 | 5 | 2,746 |
| 2002 | 4 | 3,409 |
| 2009 | 3 | 5,556 |
| 2011 | 4 | 4,764 |
| 2012 | 4 | 4,838 |
| 2022 | 5 | 3,970 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 37 | 812 |
| 2012 | 49 | 682 |
| 2013 | 56 | 611 |
| 2014 | 45 | 714 |
| 2015 | 62 | 597 |
| 2016 | 77 | 517 |
| 2017 | 89 | 462 |
| 2018 | 105 | 406 |
| 2019 | 106 | 404 |
| 2020 | 116 | 374 |
| 2021 | 113 | 385 |
| 2022 | 113 | 375 |
| 2023 | 138 | 319 |
| 2024 | 108 | 385 |
| 2025 | 93 | 427 |

## People named Cairo

- Cairo Santos, American football player from Brazil

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.