Cyrus
About 29,286 American babies have been named Cyrus since 1880, most of them around 2024. In 2025 it ranked 268th. About 24,000 Cyruses are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 13.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Cyrus boys named Cyrus
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 29,286
- Estimated living today
- 24,000
- Median age today
- 13
- Peak year
- 2024
- Best rank
- 253rd
- Rank in 2025
- 268th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 78 / 29,208
How old the living Cyruses are
born that year still alive today
Of the 29,286 babies given the name since 1880, about 24,000 are alive — 83 in every hundred. Roughly 14,000 of them are children and 1,100 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2012 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Old Persian
from Ancient Greek Κῦρος, from peo 𐎤𐎢𐎽𐎢𐏁. As a saints' name it has been identified by folk etymology with Ancient Greek κύριος (“lord”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Cyruss
- Cyrus the Great (599 BC–529 BC)founder of the Achaemenid Empire (559–529 BC)
- Cyrus I (died 579 BC)third king of the Achaemenid kingdom (625–580 BC)
- Cyrus the Younger (500 BC–400 BC)Achaemenid prince, satrap of Lydia from 408 to 401 BC
- Cyrus Vance (1917–2002)United States Secretary of State from 1977 to 1980
- Cyrus McCormick (1809–1884)American inventor and businessman
- Cyrus Christie (born 1992)Irish footballer
- Cyrus West Field (1819–1892)American businessman
- Cyrus Edwin Dallin (1861–1944)American sculptor
People named Cyrus with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Cyrus is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Cyrus is most concentrated in Hawaii (4.3×), Nevada (2.6×), Alaska (2.2×), Washington (2.1×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2024
The most popular boys’ names the year Cyrus peaked:
Cyrus elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Cyrus | 1,420 | 432nd |
| France boys | Cyrus | 390 | 1,475th |
| Switzerland boys | Cyrus | 37 | 1,291st |
| Scotland boys | Cyrus | 31 | 367th |
| Belgium boys | Cyrus | 5 | 1,350th |
| Ireland boys | Cyrus | 3 | 829th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Cyrus: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Cyrus | 13 | 0.001% | 755th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Cyrus | 24 | 0.006% | 422nd |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
Cyrus among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Cyrus | 13 | 22 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Cyrus against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.