Cairo - Meaning of Cairo

What does Cairo mean?

[ 2 syll. cai-ro, ca-iro ] The baby boy name Cairo is sometimes used as a girl name. Its pronunciation is KAYRow- †. Cairo is used chiefly in the English language and its origin is Arabic. The name is of the meaning victorious one.

The names Cayro and Kairo are variants of Cairo.

See also the related categories, english, victorious, and arabic.

Cairo is a fairly popular baby name for boys, and it is also viewed as trendy. The name's popularity has been rising since the 2010s; before that, it was of very light use only. At the modest peak of its usage in 2018, 0.028% of baby boys were given the name Cairo. Its ranking then was #518. In 2018, out of the group of boy names directly linked to Cairo, Kairo was the most commonly used. It was 12% more frequently used than Cairo in that year. In the past century Cairo has predominantly been a baby boy name.

Baby names that sound like Cairo include Ceiro, Caesear, Caezar, Cahir, Carew, Carewe, Carey, Cari, Carie, Carree, Carrey, Carri, Carrie, Carry, Cary, Casar, Cathaoir, Cayro, Chiro, and Cohor.

† Pronunciation for Cairo: K as in "key (K.IY)" ; AY as in "side (S.AY.D)" ; R as in "race (R.EY.S)" ; OW as in "oak (OW.K)"



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