Kaipo

Boys' name

The + sweetheart

Kaipo has been given to 479 babies in the U.S. since 1972. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1994, with 16 recorded.

Babies named Kaipo, 2024

1 in 371,000

Kaipo 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kaipo: meaning, origin, and history

The + sweetheart

Hawaiian

What Kaipo means

Kaipo means “the + sweetheart”, associated with ka and ipo.

Origin, language, and formation

Kaipo is used in Hawaiian. Its origins include Hawaiian.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Hawaiian, Kaipo is pronounced /ˈkai̯.po/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 479 boys were recorded with the name Kaipo between 1972 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 16 in 1994; its best national rank was #3,149 in 1983.

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 Kaipo?

Kaipo had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024: 1 in 371,000; 9 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only: 1 in 191,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 257,451 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Kaipo 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 2024 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 257,451 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kaipo. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kaipos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kaipo was born before 1996 — so the typical Kaipo is around 29 today.

Median birth year: 1996; About 29 years old
Biggest decade: 1990s; 23.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 43.4%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 479; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1990s — 23.4% of all recorded uses (112).

Is Kaipo 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1994 (16)
Years since peak: 31; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 39.9% average annual change
Best rank ever: #3,149; 1983

Spellings of Kaipo

Kaipo is not the most common spelling — Kai is, with 48.8% against Kaipo's 0.33%.

Kai48.8%70,232
Jairo8.0%11,483
Kairo7.8%11,224
Cairo6.5%9,415
Kip5.9%8,568
Kaison5.0%7,182
Kain2.6%3,750
Kaine2.5%3,621

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.

Where Kaipo is used

Across 1910–2025, Kaipo was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 2,000 boys, against 1 in 62,714 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in —).

050 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Hawaii1 in 2,000
2California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Kaipo has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Kaipo by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #3,149; 1983
Peak year: 1994; 16 that year
First recorded: 1972
Last recorded: 2024
All-time count: 479
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Kaipo

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

Kaige Kairi Kailo Kaiel Kaide Kaid Kaire Kairav Kaio Kais Kairee Kaito Kailan Kaion Kaidon Kaian Kaivon Kairon Kairos Kaiyan Kailon Kailer Kaicen Kaien

Sibling names for Kaipo

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

Breonna Austin Darian Rikki Lucero Jacquelynn Salena Jessenia

For a brother

Denton Jade Trever Darion Darrius Mackenzie Daquan Dashawn

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