Xcaret
- Gender
- Girl
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- shkah-RET
Xcaret is a girls' name, meaning “small inlet”. Too few babies were given it in the latest year to rank.
What does Xcaret mean?
Yucatec Maya place name Xcaret, from a word for an inlet
“small inlet”
Named for Xcaret, an ancient Maya port and now an eco-park on Mexico's Caribbean coast.
Is Xcaret a girl's or a boy's name?
Xcaret is a girls' name.
How popular is Xcaret in the US?
No girls in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2007, with 11 girls. It first appears in the records in 2000.
Half of all the girls named Xcaret in the US since 1880 were born between 2004 and 2012, the years shaded on the chart below.
Xcaret in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 8 | #11,085 |
| 2019 | 5 | #15,532 |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 5 | #16,210 |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 8 | #11,925 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,251 |
| 2011 | 7 | #13,339 |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,270 |
| 2009 | 6 | #15,236 |
| 2008 | 5 | #17,498 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,125 |
| 2006 | 6 | #15,147 |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 6 | #14,172 |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 5 | #15,426 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,049 |
| 2000 | 9 | #9,867 |
Names like Xcaret
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Ximena, Xena, Esme, Luna, Itzel, Montserrat, Meadow, Campbell, Solana, Sawyer, Xiomara, Aspen
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, “Xcaret: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/xcaret, updated 20 October 2026.