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Cyrena vs Cyrill

American parents have registered 822 Cyrenas since 1880, against 36 Cyrills. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Cyrena against Cyrill, 1880 to 2025 0 8 16 24 32 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Cyrena Cyrill

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 81 years in which either name was published, Cyrena for 77 years and Cyrill for 4 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.

Side by side

  Cyrena Cyrill
Total US births 82236
Most in one year 297
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 7200
Median age today 36104
Peak year 19931916
Best rank 3,681st girls3,177th boys
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19001915
Girls / boys 822 / 00 / 36

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 Cyrills alive today are over 104; half the Cyrenas are over 36. That is 68 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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