girls:
16 births since 2020
#5700 (0th percentile)
boys:
439 births since 2010
#4147 (10th percentile)
overall:
455 births since 2010
#7284 (6th percentile)
The name Kailo is the #7,284 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 455 recorded births since 2010. This represents the 5.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 5.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,147 (9.5% percentile) for all time with 439 births since 2010. For girls, it ranks #5,700 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 16 births since 2020.
Kailo first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2010 (2010 for boys and 2020 for girls). Birth data for Kailo is available in 11 out of the 14 years between 2010 and 2023 (11 years for boys and 3 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Kailo has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 96.5% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Kailo reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 9.6% percentile (ranked #835) with 50 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 50 births per million (ranked 9.6% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2015, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Kailo is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #826 (9.3% percentile) with 49 births per million.
For girls, Kailo reached its peak popularity in 2020, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #939) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2020, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kailo".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Kailo. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 73.8% confident that Kailo is pronounced as KAI-loh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is KAY-loh, at 26.2% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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