In 2025, 251 US boys were named Jairo, making it the 935th most common boys’ name of the year, down 2 places from #933 in 2024. That is 4 more than the 247 boys named Jairo in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #556, reached in 2008. That year also had the most boys given the name: 473. For comparison, it was #885 in 2015 and #3,928 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jairo in 61 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1950 with 5 babies. In all, 11,483 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 3,777 babies named Jairo.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,375 US boys were named Jairo; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 260. In 2025 that was about 1 in 6,805 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Jairo ranked highest in New Mexico in 2025, at #284 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Jayro, Jahiro and Jaro are summarised on this page.