Kairo

A unisex name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 187 babies a year in England and Wales.

Babies a year
187
England and Wales, 2025
Rarity
Uncommon
among names in use
US popularity
#226
up from #238
UK popularity
#249
187 babies · down from #230

How Kairo has moved

US popularity rank, 2017–2025. Lower is more popular.
#160#515#870201720212025#226

View as table
YearUS rank
2017#804
2018#483
2019#307
2020#279
2021#262
2022#250
2023#234
2024#238
2025#226

Kairo by the numbers

In 2025, 187 babies in England and Wales were named Kairo. In the US, 289 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

For the size of the two countries, it is given several times more often in England and Wales than in the US.

Its best year in America so far is the most recent one on record, which means it was still climbing when the records end.

What we can tell you about Kairo

Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.

Spelled almost the same

Other names in the records within a letter or two of Kairo. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Kairi369 in the US (2017)
  • Kaire8 in the US (2017)
  • Kairy6 in the US (2017)
  • Kaurikauri tree of new zealand10 in the US (2017)
  • Kadripowerful, mighty; a form of kadir5 in the US (2017)
  • Kailor26 in the US (2017)

Sounds like Kairo

Names that are said the same way as Kairo, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.

  • Cairothe victorious; from al-Qahira; place name used as given name93 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Khairo4 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Karo5 in the US (2017)

Names about as common as Kairo

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