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Cyrus

Cyrus was most popular in 2024, when 1,389 boys got the name. In 2025 it ranked number 268 for boys.

29,286babies since 1880
2024most popular year
#216best rank, 1880
#268rank in 2025

Babies named Cyrus each year in the US

Girls Boys

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Before 1880: about 1 in 351 boys born 1831 to 1840 were named Cyrus, from a sample of the 1850, 1880 and 1920 censuses.

See the numbers by decade
DecadeGirlsBoys
1880s0441
1890s0287
1900s0252
1910s0934
1920s01,102
1930s0794
1940s0755
1950s0831
1960s0789
1970s01,010
1980s01,527
1990s02,295
2000s04,970
2010s166,603
2020s626,618

Cyrus in other countries

Out of every 10,000 boys born each year, how many were named Cyrus.

US England and Wales Scotland France Berlin

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The dashed part is the US before 1880, from a census sample. It tidies spellings and leaves out rare names, so it runs higher than the counts that follow.

CountryTop yearAt peak2025 rank
US 2024 1 in 1,240 #268
England and Wales 2025 1 in 2,988 #432
Scotland 2025 1 in 2,182 #373
France 2002 1 in 19,476 #2,334
Berlin 2017 1 in 11,134 n/a (2023)

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Where the counts come from: the US from Social Security card records from 1880 (names given to at least 5 babies in a year; years before about 1937 count fewer people, because the cards started then), and before 1880 from Douglas Galbi's tables of a census sample. England and Wales from the Office for National Statistics from 1996, and before that from Stephen Bush's study of local birth records, a sample of about 120,000 births a year (CC BY 4.0). Scotland from National Records of Scotland. Northern Ireland from NISRA. France from INSEE, first names and last names. Italy from ISTAT (CC BY 4.0), the top 50 names a year. Berlin from the city's open data (CC BY 3.0 DE), counting only the first of a child's names. UK figures are Crown copyright, used under the Open Government Licence. US last names from the 2020 census, and before 1850 from the 1790 census. Irish last names from Robert Matheson's report on the births of 1890. Italian last names from the City of Florence (CC BY 4.0). Norwegian last names from Statistics Norway (CC BY 4.0).

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