This name comes from the name of the city of Cairo in Egypt, called القاهرة in Arabic, meaning "the victorious".
Usage languagesEnglishUS rank (2025)#341
Meaning and history
This name comes from Cairo, the capital of Egypt, whose Arabic name is القاهرة (al-Qāhira), meaning “the victorious.”
Popularity over timeUS births · boys
20062006: 51 births, rank #2,398
2007: 36 births, rank #3,135
2008: 45 births, rank #2,717
2009: 58 births, rank #2,252
2010: 46 births, rank #2,632
20112011: 93 births, rank #1,635
2012: 105 births, rank #1,523
2013: 157 births, rank #1,149
2014: 173 births, rank #1,102
2015: 223 births, rank #942
20162016: 267 births, rank #844
2017: 404 births, rank #638
2018: 543 births, rank #522
2019: 976 births, rank #342
2020: 918 births, rank #348
20212021: 1,020 births, rank #325
2022: 1,101 births, rank #306
2023: 1,010 births, rank #331
2024: 949 births, rank #354
20252025: 965 births, rank #341
Cairo rose from #354 to #341 for boys between 2024 and 2025. Its highest annual birth count came in 2022, with 1,101 births.
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