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Cirilo vs Ciro

American parents have registered 2,587 Ciros since 1880, against 1,128 Cirilos. Ciro is still ahead, with 43 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Cirilo against Ciro, 1880 to 2025 0 15 30 45 60 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Cirilo Ciro

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 115 years in which either name was published, Ciro for 111 years and Cirilo for 4 years. The lead changed hands 8 times.

Side by side

  Cirilo Ciro
Total US births 1,1282,587
Most in one year 2659
Babies in 2025 643
Estimated living today 8201,800
Median age today 3432
Peak year 20062024
Best rank 3,782nd boys2,370th boys
Rank in 2025 10,695th2,884th
First recorded 19151907
Girls / boys 0 / 1,1280 / 2,587

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Cirilos alive today are over 34; half the Ciros are over 32. That is 2 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Cirilo and Ciro.