Cairo
Cairo is ranked 355th among boys in 2024 (944 births). Its best rank was 306th, in 2022.
- Rank in 2024
- #355down 24 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 9440.06% of boys
- Peak year
- 20221,101 births
- Best rank
- #306in 2022
- Since 1979
- 8,991people given the name
The story in the numbers
8,444 boys have been named Cairo in the United States since 1979, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2022, with 1,101 births.
It has never been more used than now: its record year is 2022, within the last few years of data.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2020, and the 2020s alone account for 59%. It has spent 10 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 547 girls have also been given it, 6.1% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
In 2022, its biggest year
Cairo was the 306th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2022 were Liam, Noah, Oliver, James and Elijah. See all of 2022.
Names that rose and fell with Cairo
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Thiagopeak 2024
- Oaklandpeak 2022
- Kaizerpeak 2024
- Wilderpeak 2021
- Kashmirpeak 2022
- Kreedpeak 2024
- Legendpeak 2021
- Covepeak 2024
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.