Kairo

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Kairo: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Kairo: Recorded since 1996, its highest recorded position is #230, and it stood at #468 in 2025.

4registrars recorded it
42times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#230highest recorded position
8groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 2019–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2019	#4001
2021	#5581
2022	#3970
2023	#4709
2024	#5891

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in 28 of the 29 years from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #230 among boys in England and Wales, #305 among boys in Northern Ireland, #520 among boys in Republic of Ireland, #535 among boys in Scotland.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #2357 among boys in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #230 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #468 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Boys

Kairo appears in 4 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 28 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 1,668 births with the name.

Kairo across 4 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Kairo's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#2357 (1996)	#230 (2024)	#230 (2024)	28 of 29	1,668 (1996–2024)	215 (2024)
England and Wales · Girls	#4001 (2019)	#3970 (2022)	#5891 (2024)	5 of 6	20 (2019–2024)	5 (2019)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#741 (2020)	#468 (2025)	#468 (2025)	6 of 6	26 (2020–2025)	7 (2025)
Northern Ireland · Boys	#414 (2022)	#305 (2024)	#305 (2024)	2 of 3	8 (2022–2024)	5 (2024)

Kairo by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Kairo in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	12	3 of 10	4
2000s	110	10 of 10	11
2010s	611	10 of 10	61
2020sbusiest	935	5 of 10	187

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 187 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2017 and 2018, when recorded births rose by 46, from 87 to 133.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Kairo appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #230 in England and Wales in 2024.

Kairo's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#5891	3	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#230	215	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#4709	4	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#272	171	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#3970	5	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#258	182	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#5581	3	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#242	206	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#285	161	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#4001	5	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#333	137	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#343	133	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#469	87	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#621	57	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#656	52	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#866	34	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#676	49	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#1051	26	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#1251	20	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#1483	16	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#1175	21	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#1457	15	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#1578	13	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#1744	10	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#1456	13	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#2070	7	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#1629	9	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#2254	5	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#1467	9	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#1552	8	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#2097	5	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#2859	3	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#2357	4	High	Verified
2024	Northern Ireland	male	#305	5	High	Verified
2022	Northern Ireland	male	#414	3	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	male	#468	7	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	male	#520	6	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	male	#770	3	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	male	#779	3	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	male	#631	4	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	male	#741	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#535	5	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1996 and 2025, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #230, first reached in 2024.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 215 births, registered in England and Wales in 2024.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

Its record falls into 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2020, and 28 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Kairav · #1139, 14y
Kairi · #1497, 20y
Kairon · #758, 26y
Kais · #1761, 25y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Alexandria · #230, 31y
Fallon · #230, 33y
Melody · #230, 30y
Connell · #231, 30y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Alexandria · #230, 31y
Demi-Lee · #230, 26y
Melody · #230, 30y
Beibhinn · #229, 30y

Kairo was ranked #230 in England and Wales · Boys in 2024. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Kairo and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Kairo without appearing here.

Kairo moved ahead of

Gustav Compare
In 2004 they stood at #2070 and #2070 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2005 that had become #1456 and #3849.
Harald Compare
In 2005 they stood at #2859 and #2859 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2006 that had become #1744 and #4052.
Leif Compare
In 2007 they stood at #1578 and #1578 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2008 that had become #1457 and #3687.
Rodney Compare
In 2007 they stood at #1578 and #1361 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2008 that had become #1457 and #3158.

Moved ahead of Kairo

Arlo Compare
In 2001 they stood at #1467 and #1949 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2002 that had become #2254 and #848.
Hudson Compare
In 2000 they stood at #1552 and #1889 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2001 that had become #1467 and #1202.

Moved the opposite way to Kairo

Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Kairo went from #2357 to #230 while Aaron went from #33 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Kairo went from #2357 to #230 while Adam went from #16 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Kairo went from #2357 to #230 while Alan went from #163 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Kairo went from #2357 to #230 while Alex went from #43 to #171.

Moved the same way as Kairo

Albie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Kairo went from #2357 to #230 and Albie from #853 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Kairo went from #2357 to #230 and Alfie from #119 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Kairo went from #2357 to #230 and Alfred from #218 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Kairo went from #2357 to #230 and Archie from #192 to #10.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #230 in England and Wales in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Kairo

Kairo at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Kairo across 4 official records

Kairo by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Kairo appears in

Popularity data

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Kairo at a glance

Kairo across 4 official records

Kairo by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Kairo appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Kairo

Kairo and the names beside it

Kairo moved ahead of

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