Cairo
#4,067 for girls in 2025, 35 births · #341 for boys in 2025, 965 births
Given to boys 94.2% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2022 · 1,101 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 9,415since 1979
Cairo over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #4,067 | 35 | #341 | 965 |
| 2024 | #3,892 | 38 | #354 | 949 |
| 2023 | #3,329 | 48 | #331 | 1,010 |
| 2022 | #2,956 | 56 | #306 | 1,101 |
| 2021 | #2,558 | 68 | #325 | 1,020 |
| 2020 | #3,015 | 53 | #348 | 918 |
| 2019 | #2,451 | 72 | #342 | 976 |
| 2018 | #4,662 | 29 | #522 | 543 |
| 2017 | #7,840 | 14 | #638 | 404 |
| 2016 | #7,230 | 16 | #844 | 267 |
| 2015 | #11,835 | 8 | #942 | 223 |
| 2014 | #8,053 | 14 | #1,102 | 173 |
| 2013 | #14,582 | 6 | #1,149 | 157 |
| 2012 | #10,429 | 10 | #1,523 | 105 |
| 2011 | #9,150 | 12 | #1,635 | 93 |
| 2010 | #16,992 | 5 | #2,632 | 46 |
| 2009 | #17,294 | 5 | #2,252 | 58 |
| 2008 | #17,504 | 5 | #2,717 | 45 |
| 2007 | #10,129 | 11 | #3,135 | 36 |
| 2006 | #13,606 | 7 | #2,398 | 51 |
| 2005 | — | #2,614 | 42 | |
| 2004 | — | #3,735 | 24 | |
| 2003 | — | #3,732 | 23 | |
| 2002 | #13,595 | 6 | #3,909 | 21 |
| 2001 | #15,352 | 5 | #4,121 | 19 |
| 2000 | #9,874 | 9 | #3,299 | 25 |
| 1999 | #10,345 | 8 | #5,035 | 13 |
| 1998 | #9,260 | 9 | #4,019 | 17 |
| 1997 | #12,070 | 6 | #6,100 | 9 |
| 1996 | #6,723 | 13 | #4,613 | 13 |
| 1995 | #13,386 | 5 | #5,501 | 10 |
| 1994 | #7,604 | 11 | #5,868 | 9 |
| 1993 | — | #7,638 | 6 | |
| 1992 | — | #6,670 | 7 | |
| 1991 | — | #7,271 | 6 | |
| 1990 | — | #6,415 | 7 | |
| 1989 | — | #6,229 | 7 | |
| 1988 | — | #6,426 | 6 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Cairo! It came in at #5,355, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1980–1987, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Cairo is popular in 2015
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Kansas#461 · 1 in 2,261
- Virginia#582 · 1 in 3,856
- Florida#602 · 1 in 4,098
- New Jersey#623 · 1 in 4,159
- South Carolina#659 · 1 in 4,302
Best ever in a state: #65 in District of Columbia, 2021.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kansas | #461 | 7 | 1 in 2,261 |
| Virginia | #582 | 11 | 1 in 3,856 |
| Florida | #602 | 24 | 1 in 4,098 |
| New Jersey | #623 | 10 | 1 in 4,159 |
| South Carolina | #659 | 5 | 1 in 4,302 |
| Georgia | #661 | 13 | 1 in 4,227 |
| Massachusetts | #714 | 5 | 1 in 5,912 |
| New York | #744 | 19 | 1 in 5,413 |
| Arizona | #782 | 6 | 1 in 6,161 |
| Maryland | #786 | 5 | 1 in 5,562 |
| California | #862 | 28 | 1 in 8,082 |
| North Carolina | #891 | 7 | 1 in 7,430 |
| Indiana | #899 | 5 | 1 in 7,230 |
| Pennsylvania | #931 | 7 | 1 in 8,547 |
| Ohio | #987 | 7 | 1 in 8,613 |
| Texas | #1,150 | 16 | 1 in 11,755 |
| Illinois | #1,319 | 5 | 1 in 13,278 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Cairo
- 13 spots since 2024 (#354 → #341)
- 7 spots since 2020 (#348 → #341)
- 601 spots since 2015 (#942 → #341)
- Biggest jump: 206 spots in 2017 (#844 → #638)
- Biggest drop: 25 spots in 2023 (#306 → #331)
- Debuted 1979
- Peaked 2022 at #306 (1,101 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 11 yrs · run 2015–2025
- Highest: 1 in 1,586 boys born in 2022 were named Cairo (0.06%)
- Latest: 1 in 1,770 boys born in 2025 (0.06%)
- 63.3% of all boys named Cairo (5,963) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 1996, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 6 | #5,355 (1979) | #5,355 |
| 1980s | 18 | #6,229 (1989) | #6,302 |
| 1990s | 97 | #4,019 (1998) | #5,913 |
| 2000s | 344 | #2,252 (2009) | #3,191 |
| 2010s | 2,987 | #342 (2019) | #1,133 |
| 2020s | 5,963 | #306 (2022) | #334 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Cairo in 2015
Top girls' names in 2015
Top boys' names in 2015
More about 2015
girls
1,785,098 girls got a published name in 2015; 1 in 223,137 of them was named Cairo, which outranked 38.1% of the 19,130 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #10,866Zuhra9
- #10,866Zuree9
- #10,866Zyia9
- #11,835Cairo8
- #11,835Aadhira8
- #11,835Aakriti8
- #11,835Aalayiah8
- #13,006Aabha7
- #13,006Aadvika7
- #13,006Aaila7
Tied with 1,170 names at #11,835; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,916,743 boys got a published name in 2015; 1 in 8,595 of them was named Cairo, which outranked 93.3% of the 14,059 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.