Cairo

Where Cairo comes from

Cairo hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1979
    First appearance
    #5,355 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1991
    Cairo Santos born
    American football player from Brazil
  3. 1997
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  4. 2022
    Peak, #306
    1,101 babies named Cairo — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Cairo Santos · American football player from Brazil, born 1991

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.