Cairo

maleStatistical record

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

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

Cairo: Recorded every year since 1996, its highest recorded position is #319, and it stood at #385 in 2024.

3registrars recorded it
40times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#319highest recorded position
11groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2022

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#3795
1998	#3848
2000	#2746
2002	#3409
2009	#5556
2011	#4764
2012	#4838
2022	#3970

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 every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #385 among boys in England and Wales, #432 among boys in Scotland, #655 among boys in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #3795 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #319 among boys in England and Wales, in 2023 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #385 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Cairo appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 1,480 births with the name.

Cairo across 3 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.

Cairo'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	#1765 (1996)	#319 (2023)	#385 (2024)	29 of 29	1,480 (1996–2024)	138 (2023)
England and Wales · Girls	#3795 (1996)	#2746 (2000)	#3970 (2022)	8 of 27	31 (1996–2022)	5 (2000)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#770 (2023)	#655 (2024)	#655 (2024)	2 of 2	7 (2023–2024)	4 (2024)

Cairo 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 Cairo in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	39	4 of 10	10
2000s	184	10 of 10	18
2010s	669	10 of 10	67
2020sbusiest	588	5 of 10	118

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 118 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2023 and 2024, when recorded births fell by 30, from 138 to 108.

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

Cairo 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 3 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #319 in England and Wales in 2023.

Cairo'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	male	#385	108	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#319	138	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#3970	5	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#375	113	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#385	113	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#374	116	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#404	106	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#406	105	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#462	89	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#517	77	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#597	62	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#714	45	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#611	56	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#4838	4	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#682	49	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#4764	4	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#812	37	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#706	43	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#5556	3	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#848	33	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#964	27	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#1252	18	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#885	27	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#1135	18	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#938	22	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#1410	11	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#3409	4	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#1411	10	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#1467	9	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#2746	5	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#1425	9	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#1082	13	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#3848	3	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#1263	10	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#1257	10	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#3795	3	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#1765	6	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	male	#655	4	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	male	#770	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#432	7	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
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 3 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #319, first reached in 2023.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 138 births, registered in England and Wales in 2023.

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.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2023, 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.

Caira · #528, 24y
Cairan · #290, 16y
Cait · #178, 53y
Caithlin · #293, 13y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 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.

Tommie · #319, 31y
Amiee · #318, 26y
Lisa-Marie · #318, 29y
Asa · #321, 30y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Shaquille · #319, 27y
Tommie · #319, 31y
Hawa · #320, 29y
Kadie · #318, 31y

Cairo was ranked #319 in England and Wales · Boys in 2023. 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.

Cairo 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 Cairo without appearing here.

Cairo moved ahead of

Leif Compare
In 1998 they stood at #1765 and #1591 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1999 that had become #1082 and #2943.
Shannon Compare
In 2001 they stood at #1467 and #1467 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2002 that had become #1411 and #3225.
Cheryl Compare
In 2021 they stood at #4838 and #2215 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #3970 and #5669.
Donna Compare
In 2021 they stood at #4838 and #4171 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #3970 and #5669.

Moved ahead of Cairo

Arlo Compare
In 2001 they stood at #1467 and #1949 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2002 that had become #1411 and #848.
Hudson Compare
In 2004 they stood at #938 and #1160 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2005 that had become #1135 and #982.
Cooper Compare
In 1999 they stood at #1082 and #1850 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2000 that had become #1425 and #1425.
Frida Compare
In 2001 they stood at #2746 and #3912 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2002 that had become #3409 and #3409.

Moved the opposite way to Cairo

Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Cairo went from #1765 to #385 while Aaron went from #33 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Cairo went from #1765 to #385 while Adam went from #16 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Cairo went from #1765 to #385 while Alan went from #163 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Cairo went from #1765 to #385 while Alex went from #43 to #171.

Moved the same way as Cairo

Albie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Cairo went from #1765 to #385 and Albie from #853 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Cairo went from #1765 to #385 and Alfie from #119 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Cairo went from #1765 to #385 and Alfred from #218 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Cairo went from #1765 to #385 and Archie from #192 to #10.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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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 3 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #319 in England and Wales in 2023. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Cairo

Cairo at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Cairo across 3 official records

Cairo by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Cairo appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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Cairo and the names beside it

Cairo moved ahead of

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Cairo at a glance

Cairo across 3 official records

Cairo by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Cairo appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Cairo

Cairo and the names beside it

Cairo moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Cairo

Moved the opposite way to Cairo

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