Kairo
Kairo places #226 across the country in 2025, and gathering speed. Modern by the data's own clock (1995 is its first appearance), at 11,224 bearers so far.
Kairo’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Kairo, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Kairo since 1995
Kairo is at its all-time peak right now: #226 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Kairo is most common
Among the states, Kairo takes its largest share in District of Columbia, 0.47% of the boys' names recorded there in 2025, with Delaware and Maryland next.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Kairo
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Kaiden
#237 in 2025
Kyrie
#244 in 2025
Kingston
#204 in 2025
Kayden
#135 in 2025
Kinsley
#93 in 2025
Cohen
#225 in 2025
Presley
#225 in 2025
Brayden
#229 in 2025
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About Kairo
How common is Kairo today?
Kairo places #226 across the country in 2025, and gathering speed. The chart above draws the whole run since 1995, from the Social Security Administration's public data.
What is the recorded meaning of Kairo?
No recorded meaning in the references we are allowed to cite, Kairo keeps its mystery, and we keep our sourcing rule.
What names go with Kairo?
Kaiden, Kyrie and Kingston sit nearest to Kairo on origin, era, syllables and first letter. Put your own names into the sibling matcher for a list scored against them.
Get Kairo’s free Name Kit
Five printables made in your browser: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Yours in a moment, for one email.
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A printed picture book where Kairo earns every letter of their own name, page by page. See the preview pages and hear when it is ready.
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