Cyrus

What Cyrus means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Cyrus yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Up from #469 in 2015 to #268 in 2025 in the US Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Cyrus?

US: Rising: up from #469 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #779 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2024, when 1,389 boys got the name (#253 that year). First in the US records in 1880.

How common

• About 1 in 1,330 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 2,988 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 2,182 baby boys in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in HI (4.11 per 1,000 boys), WV (2.11 per 1,000 boys), ME (2.08 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Cyrus is #268 in the US and #432 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.1% of US babies named Cyrus were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Syrus88 US · 4 E&W
• Sirus18 US
• Syris16 US
• Zyrus15 US
• Cyris11 US
• Xyrus8 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Cyrus

Boys

• Casper#924Variant of Caspar, meaning “a given name”^*
• Jasper#129Editor’s note Up from #214 in 2015 to #129 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 610 US boys in the 2025 records
• Ahmad#669“praiseworthy”^*
• Darius#788Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1994, with 2,184 babies; 322 in 2025
• Luka#85Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #85 vs #261 in 2025
• Enzo#72“home + ruler”^*

For a sister

• Samira#723Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1961, with 5 babies
• Soraya#862Editor’s note Up from #1,227 in 2015 to #862 in 2025 in the US
• Esther#119“star”^*
• Kira#385Editor’s note Down from #361 in 2015 to #385 in 2025 in the US
• Jazmin#710Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 2006, with 2,240 babies; 395 in 2025
• Jazmine#992Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #446 in 2015, #992 in 2025

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Persian where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Cyrus’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.