Cario
Cario was given to 9 boys in 2025, #8,367 among boys’ names; 90 Americans have been recorded with it since 1988 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Cario by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Cario mean?
Wiktionary, Latin section
Cario is “a male given name, character in the play Miles Gloriosus of Plautus”
Meaning: Wiktionary, Latin section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Cario?
#8,367 among boys’ names, 2025
Cario entered the boys’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #8,367 in 2025.
15 babies in 2024, the peak
Cario peaked in 2024, when 15 boys were given it, #5,947 among boys’ names. The 9 births of 2025 are 60% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #8,367 | 5.3 |
| 2024 | 15 | #5,947 | 8.7 |
| 2023 | 12 | #6,961 | 7.0 |
| 2022 | 11 | #7,341 | 6.3 |
| 2021 | 11 | #7,171 | 6.3 |
| 2020 | 7 | #9,737 | 4.1 |
| 2019 | 9 | #8,318 | 5.0 |
| 2018 | 5 | #12,478 | 2.8 |
| 2017 | 6 | #10,996 | 3.2 |
| 1988 | 5 | #7,433 | 2.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Cario a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Cario has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 10 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Cario: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Cario, and how old are they?
An estimated 89 Americans named Cario and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made.
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 69,719 babies since 1880, Cario is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 9 of their 1,063 babies (<1%), again the fifth most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Cario
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Cario and names like it
- Compare Cario and CaryBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sCario peaked in 2024.
- Latin namesWiktionary’s origin for Cario: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Cario.
- Names starting with CMost given first.