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Caillou vs Cairo

American parents have registered 9,999 Cairos since 1880, against 252 Caillous. Cairo is still ahead, with 1,000 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Caillou against Cairo, 1880 to 2025 0 300 600 900 1.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Caillou Cairo

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 40 years in which either name was published, Cairo for 38 years and Caillou for 2 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Caillou Cairo
Total US births 2529,999
Most in one year 351,157
Babies in 2025 under 51,000
Estimated living today 2509,900
Median age today 194
Peak year 20012022
Best rank 2,681st boys306th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked341st
First recorded 20011979
Girls / boys 0 / 252584 / 9,415

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Caillous alive today are over 19; half the Cairos are over 4. That is 15 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Caillou and Cairo.