Meaning of the nameKairo

Kairo is a spelling of the name Cairo, which means “name of the city of Cairo, in Egypt”.

Meaning

“name of the city of Cairo, in Egypt”

Meaning of the name Cairo, of which Kairo is a spelling.

Source: Wiktionary: Cairo · Behind the Name: Cairo · Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil: Cairo

People (2022): 3,159
Rank in Brazil: #3,750
Median age: 17 years
2010 Census: 2,162; people

Kairo in the 2022 Census

People with the first name Kairo, by the decade they were born. In the chart, 70 = the 1970s and 20+ = 2020 to 2022. The largest group was born in the 2000s (1,006 people).

0 women 3,141 men

Source: IBGE, 2022 Demographic Census, Nomes no Brasil. The census counts the first name of people alive in 2022; small counts are not published, and the first group covers everyone born before 1940. How to read these data.

Where the name Kairo is most common

States with the highest share of people named Kairo in the population, in the 2022 Census.

Maranhão 0.006%
Mato Grosso 0.006%
Piauí 0.005%
Goiás 0.004%
Amazonas 0.004%

All states

State	People	% of population
Maranhão	429	0.006%
Minas Gerais	324	0.002%
São Paulo	312	0.001%
Goiás	290	0.004%
Pará	270	0.003%
Ceará	227	0.003%
Mato Grosso	214	0.006%
Piauí	164	0.005%
Amazonas	141	0.004%
Bahia	79	0.001%
Paraná	79	0.001%
Tocantins	76	0.005%
Acre	69	0.008%
Amapá	68	0.009%
Distrito Federal	59	0.002%
Santa Catarina	52	0.001%
Rio Grande do Sul	48	0.000%
Roraima	45	0.007%
Rio de Janeiro	37	0.000%
Rondônia	34	0.002%
Pernambuco	29	0.000%
Espírito Santo	27	0.001%
Mato Grosso do Sul	27	0.001%
Rio Grande do Norte	23	0.001%
Paraíba	15	0.000%

States with fewer than 15 people with the name are not shown: IBGE does not publish those counts.

The spelling Kairo

It swaps the C for K; Behind the Name and the Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil list it as a variant of Cairo.

About the name Cairo

The Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil (Dictionary of Names in Use in Brazil) gives the city in Egypt as the etymology of Cairo, and Wiktionary traces the place name to the Arabic al-qāhira, via Old Galician-Portuguese. Behind the Name treats the name as derived from the city and translates the Arabic as 'the victorious'. In the 2022 Census, IBGE recorded 4,297 people named Cairo, with a median age of 24. The Dictionary lists Kairo and Kayro among the spelling variants.

Other spellings of Cairo

Spelling	People (2022)
Cairo	4,297
Kairo	3,159

Sources

Wiktionary: Cairo · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
Behind the Name: Cairo · behindthename.com · meaning
Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil: Cairo · dicionariodenomesdobrasil.com.br · meaning

Questions about the name Kairo

What does the name Kairo mean?

Kairo means “name of the city of Cairo, in Egypt”, according to Wiktionary and Behind the Name. This is the meaning of the name Cairo, of which Kairo is a spelling.

How many people are named Kairo in Brazil?

IBGE's 2022 Census recorded 3,159 people with the first name Kairo, which ranks it number 3,750 among the country's names. The largest group was born in the 2000s.

Is Kairo a boy's or a girl's name?

Kairo is a male name: in the 2022 Census, 0 women and 3,141 men had this name (IBGE does not publish very small counts).

What is the origin of the name Kairo?

Kairo is a name of Arabic origin. The sources are listed at the end of the page.

In which Brazilian state is Kairo most common?

Proportionally, in Maranhão: 0.006% of the state's population is named Kairo (429 people), according to the 2022 Census.

What are the other spellings of Kairo?

Cairo. IBGE counts each spelling separately.

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