Cy
Last seen for girls in 2023 at #12,197 · #2,539 for boys in 2025, 52 births
Given to boys 99.4% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1902 · 6 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 3,898since 1902
Cy over time
Rank among boys' names. Cy has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #2,539 | 52 | |
| 2024 | — | #2,345 | 60 | |
| 2023 | #12,197 | 7 | #2,014 | 75 |
| 2022 | — | #2,408 | 58 | |
| 2021 | — | #2,775 | 45 | |
| 2020 | — | #2,139 | 65 | |
| 2019 | — | #2,020 | 72 | |
| 2018 | — | #2,083 | 68 | |
| 2017 | — | #2,715 | 45 | |
| 2016 | #14,331 | 6 | #2,184 | 62 |
| 2015 | — | #2,212 | 61 | |
| 2014 | — | #2,000 | 71 | |
| 2013 | — | #1,568 | 99 | |
| 2012 | — | #1,478 | 109 | |
| 2011 | — | #1,573 | 99 | |
| 2010 | — | #1,415 | 117 | |
| 2009 | — | #1,604 | 99 | |
| 2008 | — | #1,543 | 104 | |
| 2007 | — | #1,433 | 113 | |
| 2006 | — | #1,460 | 105 | |
| 2005 | #16,462 | 5 | #1,402 | 106 |
| 2004 | — | #1,516 | 88 | |
| 2003 | — | #1,764 | 68 | |
| 2002 | — | #1,998 | 55 | |
| 2001 | — | #1,600 | 74 | |
| 2000 | — | #1,504 | 80 | |
| 1999 | #14,411 | 5 | #1,560 | 71 |
| 1998 | — | #1,680 | 61 | |
| 1997 | — | #1,991 | 45 | |
| 1996 | — | #1,933 | 46 | |
| 1995 | — | #1,706 | 52 | |
| 1994 | — | #1,795 | 48 | |
| 1993 | — | #1,769 | 48 | |
| 1992 | — | #1,844 | 44 | |
| 1991 | — | #1,744 | 46 | |
| 1990 | — | #1,909 | 40 | |
| 1989 | — | #2,027 | 35 | |
| 1988 | — | #2,437 | 24 | |
| 1987 | — | #2,057 | 29 | |
| 1986 | — | #1,662 | 38 | |
| 1985 | — | #1,834 | 32 | |
| 1984 | — | #1,979 | 27 | |
| 1983 | — | #1,562 | 38 | |
| 1982 | — | #1,539 | 40 | |
| 1981 | — | #1,411 | 45 | |
| 1980 | — | #1,569 | 38 | |
| 1979 | — | #1,670 | 34 | |
| 1978 | — | #1,870 | 27 | |
| 1977 | — | #1,607 | 34 | |
| 1976 | — | #1,453 | 38 | |
| 1975 | — | #1,455 | 37 | |
| 1974 | — | #1,520 | 33 | |
| 1973 | — | #1,586 | 30 | |
| 1972 | — | #1,680 | 27 | |
| 1971 | — | #2,126 | 19 | |
| 1970 | — | #1,939 | 21 | |
| 1969 | — | #2,217 | 15 | |
| 1968 | — | #1,894 | 18 | |
| 1967 | — | #2,139 | 14 | |
| 1966 | — | #1,684 | 21 | |
| 1965 | — | #1,918 | 17 | |
| 1964 | — | #1,729 | 21 | |
| 1963 | — | #1,695 | 22 | |
| 1962 | — | #1,669 | 23 | |
| 1961 | — | #1,731 | 22 | |
| 1960 | — | #1,692 | 23 | |
| 1959 | — | #1,806 | 20 | |
| 1958 | — | #2,506 | 11 | |
| 1957 | — | #1,751 | 21 | |
| 1956 | — | #1,568 | 25 | |
| 1955 | — | #1,339 | 32 | |
| 1954 | — | #1,466 | 27 | |
| 1953 | — | #1,709 | 20 | |
| 1952 | — | #1,665 | 21 | |
| 1951 | — | #1,972 | 15 | |
| 1950 | — | #1,701 | 19 | |
| 1949 | — | #2,337 | 11 | |
| 1948 | — | #3,316 | 6 | |
| 1947 | — | #1,988 | 15 | |
| 1946 | — | #2,403 | 10 | |
| 1945 | — | #2,393 | 9 | |
| 1944 | — | #2,633 | 8 | |
| 1943 | — | #3,538 | 5 | |
| 1942 | — | #2,940 | 7 | |
| 1941 | — | #2,872 | 7 | |
| 1940 | — | — | ||
| 1939 | — | #2,829 | 7 | |
| 1938 | — | #2,646 | 8 | |
| 1937 | — | — | ||
| 1936 | — | #2,854 | 7 | |
| 1935 | — | #3,645 | 5 | |
| 1934 | — | #2,266 | 11 | |
| 1933 | — | — | ||
| 1932 | — | #2,849 | 8 | |
| 1931 | — | #2,864 | 8 | |
| 1930 | — | #3,289 | 7 | |
| 1929 | — | #3,559 | 6 | |
| 1928 | — | #3,076 | 8 | |
| 1927 | — | — | ||
| 1926 | — | #3,139 | 8 | |
| 1925 | — | — | ||
| 1924 | — | #3,023 | 9 | |
| 1923 | — | #2,950 | 9 | |
| 1922 | — | #2,347 | 13 | |
| 1921 | — | #4,322 | 5 | |
| 1920 | — | #4,286 | 5 | |
| 1919 | — | #2,665 | 10 | |
| 1918 | — | #2,543 | 11 | |
| 1917 | — | #3,981 | 5 | |
| 1916 | — | #2,543 | 10 | |
| 1915 | — | #1,782 | 16 | |
| 1914 | — | #2,651 | 7 | |
| 1913 | — | #2,496 | 6 | |
| 1912 | — | #1,527 | 11 | |
| 1911 | — | #1,740 | 5 | |
| 1910 | — | — | ||
| 1909 | — | — | ||
| 1908 | — | — | ||
| 1907 | — | #1,345 | 5 | |
| 1906 | — | — | ||
| 1905 | — | — | ||
| 1904 | — | — | ||
| 1903 | — | — | ||
| 1902 | — | #1,013 | 6 | |
| 1901 | — | — | ||
| 1900 | — | — | ||
| 1899 | — | — | ||
| 1898 | — | — | ||
| 1897 | — | — | ||
| 1896 | — | — | ||
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| 1891 | — | — | ||
| 1890 | — | — | ||
| 1889 | — | — | ||
| 1888 | — | — | ||
| 1887 | — | — | ||
| 1886 | — | — | ||
| 1885 | — | — | ||
| 1884 | — | — | ||
| 1883 | — | — | ||
| 1882 | — | — | ||
| 1881 | — | — | ||
| 1880 | — | — | ||
The first year at least five boys were named Cy! It came in at #1,013, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1903–1911, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Cy
- 194 spots since 2024 (#2,345 → #2,539)
- 400 spots since 2020 (#2,139 → #2,539)
- 327 spots since 2015 (#2,212 → #2,539)
- Debuted 1902
- Peaked 1902 at #1,013 (6 births)
- Births halved by 1903, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 16,399 boys born in 2010 were named Cy (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 32,848 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,013 in 1902, was only 1 in 20,443 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 22.9% of all boys named Cy (892) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 11 | #1,013 (1902) | #1,179 |
| 1910s | 81 | #1,527 (1912) | #2,436 |
| 1920s | 63 | #2,347 (1922) | #3,338 |
| 1930s | 61 | #2,266 (1934) | #2,905 |
| 1940s | 78 | #1,988 (1947) | #2,713 |
| 1950s | 211 | #1,339 (1955) | #1,748 |
| 1960s | 196 | #1,669 (1962) | #1,837 |
| 1970s | 300 | #1,453 (1976) | #1,691 |
| 1980s | 346 | #1,411 (1981) | #1,808 |
| 1990s | 501 | #1,560 (1999) | #1,793 |
| 2000s | 892 | #1,402 (2005) | #1,582 |
| 2010s | 803 | #1,415 (2010) | #1,925 |
| 2020s | 355 | #2,014 (2023) | #2,370 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Cy in 2005
Top girls' names in 2005
Top boys' names in 2005
More about 2005
girls
1,847,842 girls got a published name in 2005; 1 in 369,568 of them was named Cy, which outranked 14.3% of the 19,199 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 2,737 names at #16,462; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,997,305 boys got a published name in 2005; 1 in 18,843 of them was named Cy, which outranked 89.5% of the 13,370 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 10.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,390Roan107
- #1,390Tai107
- #1,390Willem107
- #1,402Cy106
- #1,402Bodie106
- #1,402Dusty106
- #1,402Iain106
- #1,410Kahlil105
- #1,411Archer104
- #1,411Arian104
Tied with 7 names at #1,402; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.