Kairo
Pronounced K AY1 R OW0 (ARPABET)
- 2 syllables
- Peaked 2023
- 46 years in use
- 2 spellings
How popular is Kairo?
Kairo is a boys' name, and first appears in 1979. It has been given to 18,127 children — the 793rd most common boys' name on record.
It is climbing hard: more than ten times as many births in the past decade as in the one before it. Its best single year was 2023, when 2,514 children were given it.
Two other spellings are counted in that total — Cairo and Kairoh — because they are pronounced identically.
Spelling variants
These spellings sound identical to Kairo and are counted together with it, which is why the totals here are higher than a single-spelling count.
- Cairo
- Kairoh
Characteristics
- 2 syllables
Phonetic detail
- Pronunciations:
- K AY1 R OW0 · K AY1 R OW1
- Stress pattern:
- 10 · 11
- Syllables:
- 2
Stress digits mark unstressed (0), primary (1) and secondary (2) syllables.
Names like Kairo
Same first letter and syllable count, peaking around the same time.
Sibling names for Kairo
Names from the same era with a matching rhythm but a different initial.
Frequently asked questions
- How popular is the name Kairo?
- Kairo ranks 793rd among boys' names in US records, with 18,127 births since 1979. Over the past decade it accounts for 16,578.
- Is Kairo a unisex name?
- No. Kairo is recorded almost entirely as a boys' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
- When was Kairo most popular?
- 2023, when 2,514 children were given the name. It has been in use for 46 years and is still recorded as of 2024.
- How else is Kairo spelled?
- Cairo, Kairoh. All of these sound the same and are counted together in the totals on this page.