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Kaho

Gender
Girl
Say it
KAH-hoh
Origin
Japanese

Kaho is a girls' name of Japanese origin. Too few babies were given it in the latest year to rank.

What does Kaho mean?

Japanese: Japanese girl's name, written with several different kanji

A Japanese girl's name whose meaning depends on the kanji used to write it.

Is Kaho a girl's or a boy's name?

Kaho is a girls' name.

How popular is Kaho in the US?

No girls in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2014, with 13 girls. It first appears in the records in 1993.

Half of all the girls named Kaho in the US since 1880 were born between 2002 and 2013, the years shaded on the chart below.

1993Busiest: 13 in 20142021
Kaho in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20216#13,459
20200–
20190–
20180–
20170–
20160–
20157#13,001
201413#8,480
20137#13,145
201211#9,706
20115#16,756
20106#14,953
20090–
20085#17,498
20076#15,485
20065#17,163
20050–
20040–
20035#15,777
20027#12,181
20016#13,514
20000–
19990–
19987#11,132
19970–
19960–
19950–
19946#11,771
19936#11,773

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Sources

Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Kaho: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/kaho, updated 20 October 2026.