How Many People Are Named Cairo?
people named Cairo are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 34,419 people in the US has this name
Based on 9,999 babies named Cairo in Social Security records from 1979 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
1,157 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
From the name of the city in Egypt, called القاهرة (al-Qahirah) in Arabic, meaning "the victorious".
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
Of the babies given the name Cairo, 5.8% were girls and 94.2% were boys. The share of girls among babies named Cairo fell from 34.9% in the 1990s to 4.8% in the 2020s.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Cairo alive today is about 6 years old, and 99% are under 30. Half of them were between 2 and 7 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Cairo first appears in the records in 1979 and was given most often in 2022, to 1,157 babies. In 2025, 1,000 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1979 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Cairo has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #306, in 2022. In 2025 it ranked #341.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #341 |
| Best rank | #306 (2022) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #334 in the 2020s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Cairo alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Cairo were born in California than in any other state: about 992 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Cairo was given 3.1 times as often in District of Columbia, 2.2 times in Georgia and 2.2 times in Maryland.
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