Kairo
#4,172 for girls in 2025, 34 births · #226 for boys in 2025, 1,577 births
Given to boys 97.4% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 1,577 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 11,224since 1995
Kairo over time
Rank among boys' names. Kairo has never cracked the top 200 here.
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 | #4,172 | 34 | #226 | 1,577 |
| 2024 | #3,963 | 37 | #238 | 1,483 |
| 2023 | #3,428 | 46 | #234 | 1,491 |
| 2022 | #3,653 | 42 | #250 | 1,415 |
| 2021 | #4,167 | 34 | #263 | 1,316 |
| 2020 | #5,168 | 24 | #280 | 1,195 |
| 2019 | #3,272 | 48 | #307 | 1,109 |
| 2018 | #8,617 | 12 | #483 | 608 |
| 2017 | #12,713 | 7 | #802 | 285 |
| 2016 | #14,331 | 6 | #1,221 | 153 |
| 2015 | #16,419 | 5 | #1,815 | 82 |
| 2014 | — | #1,979 | 72 | |
| 2013 | — | #1,942 | 71 | |
| 2012 | — | #2,716 | 44 | |
| 2011 | — | #2,748 | 43 | |
| 2010 | — | #4,099 | 24 | |
| 2009 | — | #2,894 | 41 | |
| 2008 | — | #5,249 | 17 | |
| 2007 | — | #4,127 | 24 | |
| 2006 | — | #3,384 | 31 | |
| 2005 | — | #3,941 | 23 | |
| 2004 | — | #6,138 | 12 | |
| 2003 | — | #4,616 | 17 | |
| 2002 | — | #4,919 | 15 | |
| 2001 | — | #6,935 | 9 | |
| 2000 | — | #4,066 | 19 | |
| 1999 | — | #6,530 | 9 | |
| 1998 | — | #5,840 | 10 | |
| 1997 | — | #5,642 | 10 | |
| 1996 | — | #4,613 | 13 | |
| 1995 | — | #7,792 | 6 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Kairo! It came in at #7,792, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1995, when fewer than 7 boys a year got the name.
Where Kairo is popular in 2017
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Maryland#356 · 1 in 1,767
- Connecticut#371 · 1 in 2,007
- Massachusetts#470 · 1 in 3,202
- Florida#510 · 1 in 3,118
- Alabama#576 · 1 in 3,267
Best ever in a state: #45 in District of Columbia, 2023.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maryland | #356 | 15 | 1 in 1,767 |
| Connecticut | #371 | 7 | 1 in 2,007 |
| Massachusetts | #470 | 9 | 1 in 3,202 |
| Florida | #510 | 31 | 1 in 3,118 |
| Alabama | #576 | 7 | 1 in 3,267 |
| Georgia | #579 | 15 | 1 in 3,579 |
| North Carolina | #603 | 13 | 1 in 3,948 |
| Virginia | #657 | 9 | 1 in 4,528 |
| New Jersey | #661 | 9 | 1 in 4,539 |
| Wisconsin | #673 | 6 | 1 in 4,332 |
| New York | #681 | 20 | 1 in 4,878 |
| Pennsylvania | #756 | 10 | 1 in 5,821 |
| Louisiana | #795 | 5 | 1 in 4,771 |
| California | #832 | 29 | 1 in 7,438 |
| Texas | #912 | 23 | 1 in 7,659 |
| Illinois | #968 | 8 | 1 in 7,741 |
| Michigan | #970 | 6 | 1 in 7,737 |
| Ohio | #980 | 7 | 1 in 8,337 |
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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 Kairo
- 12 spots since 2024 (#238 → #226)
- 54 spots since 2020 (#280 → #226)
- 1,589 spots since 2015 (#1,815 → #226)
- Biggest jump: 419 spots in 2017 (#1,221 → #802)
- Biggest drop: 4 spots in 2024 (#234 → #238)
- Debuted 1995
- Peaked 2025 at #226 (1,577 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 9 yrs · run 2017–2025
- Highest: 1 in 1,083 boys born in 2025 were named Kairo (0.09%)
- 75.5% of all boys named Kairo (8,477) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 48 | #4,613 (1996) | #6,083 |
| 2000s | 208 | #2,894 (2009) | #4,627 |
| 2010s | 2,491 | #307 (2019) | #1,811 |
| 2020s | 8,477 | #226 (2025) | #249 |
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.
Kairo in 2017
Top girls' names in 2017
Top boys' names in 2017
More about 2017
girls
1,726,461 girls got a published name in 2017; 1 in 246,637 of them was named Kairo, which outranked 31.1% of the 18,448 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #11,615Zuhur8
- #11,615Zyion8
- #11,615Zylia8
- #12,713Kairo7
- #12,713Aalaiyah7
- #12,713Aanshi7
- #12,713Aaradhana7
- #14,124Aabriella6
- #14,124Aaditri6
- #14,124Aafiya6
Tied with 1,410 names at #12,713; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 263Julianne#919 → #1,182
- ↓ 243Milania#947 → #1,190
- ↓ 240Wendy#858 → #1,098
- ↓ 238Montserrat#808 → #1,046
- ↓ 224Nathaly#930 → #1,154
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,850,956 boys got a published name in 2017; 1 in 6,495 of them was named Kairo, which outranked 94.4% of the 14,262 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).