Cario

#8,367 in 2025Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Cario has been given to 90 babies in the U.S. since 1988. In 2025 it ranked #8,367 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 15 recorded.

Babies named Cario, 2025

1 in 368,000

Cario over time, 1880–2025

Boys

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Cario: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Cario means

Cario is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Cario is used in Latin.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 90 boys were recorded with the name Cario between 1988 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 15 in 2024; its best national rank was #5,947 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #9,737 in 2020 to #8,367 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Cario?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 368,000; 9 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only: 1 in 190,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025: #8,367; of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 255,323 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Cario sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Cario. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Carios were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Cario was born before 2022 — so the typical Cario is around 3 today.

Median birth year: 2022; About 3 years old
Biggest decade: 2020s; 72.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 94.4%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 90; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2020s — 72.2% of all recorded uses (65).

Is Cario rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: −2,420; Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago: +1,370; Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 60.0%; Peak was 2024 (15)
Years since peak: 1; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 31.3% average annual change
Best rank ever: #5,947; 2024

Spellings of Cario

Cario is not the most common spelling — Carl is, with 29.2% against Cario's <0.01%.

Carl29.2%504,827
Carlos17.7%307,036
Mario8.7%151,310
Chris8.5%147,462
Carson7.7%132,774
Marco4.4%76,578
Marion4.2%72,495
Darin1.9%32,546

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Cario by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: #8,367
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: Up 1,370
Best rank ever: #5,947; 2024
Peak year: 2024; 15 that year
First recorded: 1988
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 90
Count in 2025: 9

Names similar to Cario

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Carin Carmi Carwyn Carbon Cari Careem Kario Carlens Carly Carel Carnie Carron Carlen Caruso Carder Carlyn Carden Carsin Carmin Carols Cara Cardon Cartel Carmie

Sibling names for Cario

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Annabell Abagail Leonor Karleigh Rhianna Adelle Keren Kendyl

For a brother

Aaden Kale Evans Hamilton Brennen Tobin Jerimiah Jorden

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