Meaning not yet researched.
Cairo: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 965 in 2025. Its best rank was #306 in 2022.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #306 in 2022; #341 in 2025. About 97% of babies named Cairo in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#341 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2022, at #306.
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Cairo: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 965 boys in 2025. Peak: #306 in 2022 · most boys in one year: 1,101 (2022).
In 2025, 965 US boys were named Cairo, making it the 341st most common boys’ name of the year, up 13 places from #354 in 2024. That is 16 more than the 949 boys named Cairo in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #306, reached in 2022. That year also had the most boys given the name: 1,101. For comparison, it was #942 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Cairo in 40 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1979 with 6 babies. In all, 9,999 US babies have been given the name, 5.8% of them girls and 94% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 6,261 babies named Cairo.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 8,153 US boys were named Cairo; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 1,101. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,770 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Cairo ranked highest in District of Columbia in 2025, at #84 for boys there. It was in the top 100 in 1 state (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Kairo (11,519 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Cairo in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 16 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| District of Columbia | 10 | #84 | — |
| Delaware | 8 | #129 | — |
| Rhode Island | 6 | #183 | — |
| Georgia | 66 | #185 | #669 |
| Maryland | 32 | #191 | #802 |
| Louisiana | 24 | #211 | — |
| Florida | 99 | #215 | #605 |
| Virginia | 36 | #238 | #591 |
| South Carolina | 23 | #243 | #671 |
| North Carolina | 48 | #260 | #908 |
| New York | 66 | #283 | #747 |
| Connecticut | 11 | #285 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 39 | #294 | #948 |
| Nevada | 10 | #302 | — |
| New Jersey | 27 | #313 | #630 |
| Ohio | 36 | #320 | #996 |
| Texas | 114 | #327 | #1,157 |
| Massachusetts | 16 | #336 | #736 |
| Illinois | 32 | #336 | #1,347 |
| Kentucky | 13 | #380 | — |
| Mississippi | 7 | #423 | — |
| Alabama | 12 | #426 | — |
| Arizona | 17 | #434 | #796 |
| Missouri | 14 | #439 | — |
| Nebraska | 5 | #447 | — |
| Indiana | 15 | #455 | #918 |
| Michigan | 18 | #464 | — |
| California | 67 | #473 | #864 |
| Minnesota | 11 | #481 | — |
| Tennessee | 14 | #524 | — |
| Wisconsin | 9 | #530 | — |
| Colorado | 10 | #543 | — |
| Iowa | 5 | #590 | — |
| Kansas | 5 | #605 | #469 |
| Washington | 7 | #820 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 35 | #4,085 | 965 | #341 |
| 2024 | 38 | #3,906 | 949 | #354 |
| 2023 | 48 | #3,338 | 1,010 | #331 |
| 2022 | 56 | #2,966 | 1,101 | #306 |
| 2021 | 68 | #2,560 | 1,020 | #325 |
| 2020 | 53 | #3,027 | 918 | #348 |
| 2019 | 72 | #2,456 | 976 | #342 |
| 2018 | 29 | #4,683 | 543 | #522 |
| 2017 | 14 | #7,925 | 404 | #639 |
| 2016 | 16 | #7,321 | 267 | #844 |
| 2015 | 8 | #12,042 | 223 | #942 |
| 2014 | 14 | #8,137 | 173 | #1,103 |
| 2013 | 6 | #14,961 | 157 | #1,149 |
| 2012 | 10 | #10,588 | 105 | #1,526 |
| 2011 | 12 | #9,269 | 93 | #1,637 |
| 2010 | 5 | #17,526 | 46 | #2,640 |
| 2009 | 5 | #17,801 | 58 | #2,255 |
| 2008 | 5 | #18,034 | 45 | #2,719 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,251 | 36 | #3,140 |
| 2006 | 7 | #13,854 | 51 | #2,410 |
| 2005 | — | — | 42 | #2,623 |
| 2004 | — | — | 24 | #3,746 |
| 2003 | — | — | 23 | #3,745 |
| 2002 | 6 | #13,897 | 21 | #3,930 |
| 2001 | 5 | #15,769 | 19 | #4,147 |
| 2000 | 9 | #10,036 | 25 | #3,315 |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,516 | 13 | #5,073 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,394 | 17 | #4,041 |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,325 | 9 | #6,158 |
| 1996 | 13 | #6,778 | 13 | #4,645 |
| 1995 | 5 | #13,748 | 10 | #5,550 |
| 1994 | 11 | #7,681 | 9 | #5,927 |
| 1993 | — | — | 6 | #7,754 |
| 1992 | — | — | 7 | #6,755 |
| 1991 | — | — | 6 | #7,387 |
| 1990 | — | — | 7 | #6,494 |
| 1989 | — | — | 7 | #6,303 |
| 1988 | — | — | 6 | #6,531 |
| 1980 | — | — | 5 | #6,379 |
| 1979 | — | — | 6 | #5,444 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).