Cairo

Where Cairo comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Cairo.

  • Vowel-ended
Cairo through the years
  1. 1979
    First appearance
    #5,355 among boys with 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 on, more boys have.
  4. 2022
    Peak, #306
    1,101 babies named Cairo, the most in any year.
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

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.