Cyrus

given name · English · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Cyrus is a given name, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. It appears chiefly in English and Swahili, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: The etymology of the name Cyrus is uncertain.

rarermore common
  • HKHong Kong1 in 3.3K◐
  • PHPhilippines1 in 15K
  • USUnited States1 in 19K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈19K ●

across 7 countries

Sources
364 ●

144K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 19K ◐

United States

Spellings & scripts●

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

The etymology of the name Cyrus is uncertain. Ancient Greek authors associated it with the word for 'sun', but modern scholarship suggests it derives from the Old Persian 'Kūruš,' which has been variously interpreted as 'the humiliator' (of the enemy), 'young', or from an Elamite origin meaning 'he who bestows care'.

Sources 1

  • Biblical Names Compiled Database

Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Cyrus is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—17,879112K rec.1 in 19K18KCyrus364
PH Philippines—11,1318.4K rec.——Cyrus82
GB United Kingdom—4,0075.1K rec.—6Cyrus114
CA Canada—3,8342.4K rec.—11Cyrus114
AU Australia—2,4012.8K rec.—3Cyrus114
IN India—1,4421.5K rec.—55Cyrus87
HK Hong Kong#1831,1331.1K rec.——Cyrus56
DE Germany—1,1061.8K rec.——Cyrus85
MY Malaysia—519540 rec.——Cyrus31
SG Singapore—336376 rec.——Cyrus50
NG Nigeria—310509 rec.——Cyrus38
FR France—270△4 rec.1 in 251K270—4

Roughly 18K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 19K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English100K62%
  • Swahili21K13%
  • Spanish11K7%
  • French4.1K3%
  • German2.6K2%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English99,99762%
Swahili21,23013%
Spanish10,7937%
French4,0693%
German2,5722%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Cyrus is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name16K records spelled Cyrus50 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, Brazil, Venezuela, Mexico

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese

    Also written Ciro, Círo, Tsiro, Cïrö, Cïro

  • Danish given name707 records spelled Cyrus6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Denmark, Norway, United Kingdom

    Languages: Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Swedish

    Also written Cyrûs

69 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Cyrus is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • Cyrus is a boy's name of Persian origin with a powerful and historic legacy. In the Bible, Cyrus the Great is celebrated as the noble king who freed the Jewish people from captivity and helped them rebuild their Temple. The name carries connotations of leadership, vision, and benevolence.

    as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database

  • In English, Persian; of the Persian Empire; from the name of the founder Cyrus

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  • In English, Persian: name of the founder of the Persian Empire.

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  • In English, From the Persian empire; from the name Cyrus.

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  • In English, Name of the founder of the Persian Empire

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Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

05001K1.5K1900195020001.4K · 2024

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Cyrus in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1880–2025
Yearrecords
188054
188140
188246
188347
188437
188540
188659
188738
188845
188935
189031
189122
189247
189333
189427
189525
189622
189731
189825
189924
190036
190126
190222
190322
190422
190525
190633
190720
190823
190923
191027
191129
191279
191386
191487
1915124
1916124
1917136
1918140
1919102
1920117
1921128
1922139
1923110
1924110
1925111
1926129
1927104
192879
192975
193094
193188
193276
193379
193487
193582
193680
193777
193875
193956
194072
194178
194269
194369
194483
194550
194674
194776
194888
194996
195080
195186
195277
195372
195478
195597
195689
195784
195892
195976
196077
196190
196288
196377
196466
196588
196663
196770
196896
196974
1970100
197183
197285
197386
197491
197593
197677
1977136
1978133
1979126
1980160
1981172
1982143
1983149
1984161
1985133
1986135
1987151
1988166
1989157
1990152
1991164
1992200
1993207
1994190
1995177
1996209
1997276
1998357
1999363
2000397
2001428
2002506
2003510
2004473
2005509
2006502
2007587
2008539
2009519
2010535
2011505
2012583
2013663
2014640
2015638
2016732
2017734
2018817
2019756
2020843
2021933
20221,045
20231,124
20241,389
20251,284

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 146 years between 1880–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

5001000150020002500Cyrus the Great, b. 600Cyrus McCormick, b. 1809Cyrus West Field, b. 1819Cyrus Scofield, b. 1843Cyrus Eaton, b. 1883Jean Rostand, b. 1894Cyrus Vance, b. 1917Cyrus Christie, b. 1992Cyrus Arnold, b. 2003

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 76 sources across 40 countries.

Official registers attesting Cyrus
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202018K#1,715
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020104.6K#7,322
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020204.5K#7,186
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020004.4K#7,087
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)20251.3K—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)2024270#1,828
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—263#4,301
GD GrenadaGrenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 20252025168#88
VC St. Vincent & GrenadinesElectoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025)2025164#112
GY GuyanaGuyana — Official List of Electors July 20252025155#470
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)2026113—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020113#1,715

Reference works 5

  • Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (Tom II: C-D)
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 407 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Cyrus?
We estimate roughly 19 thousand people bear Cyrus (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
In which country does Cyrus have the most bearers?
We estimate about 18 thousand people bear Cyrus in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled cyrus.
How common is Cyrus compared with other names?
In Hong Kong, Cyrus is the 183rd most common given name of 19,389 given names recorded there.
Is Cyrus a male or female name?
Cyrus is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Cyrus mean?
Recorded meaning: The etymology of the name Cyrus is uncertain.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Cyrus” — the 183rd most common given name in Hong Kong. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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