Cyril

Where Cyril comes from

Via Late Latin Cȳrillus, from Ancient Greek Κύριλλος (Kúrillos), from κύριος (kúrios, “lord, master”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Cyril
  • Ancient Greek
  • 2 syllables
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #909 among boys — 5 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1897
    Cyril Norman Hinshelwood born
    English physical chemist
  3. 1902
    Peak, #261
    50 babies named Cyril — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1952
    Cyril Ramaphosa born
    President of South Africa since 2018
  5. 1996
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #3,021.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Ancient Greek; best known for a ninth century missionary to the Slavs.
Namesakes
  • Cyril Ramaphosa · President of South Africa since 2018, born 1952
  • Cyril Norman Hinshelwood · English physical chemist, 1897–1967
  • Cyril Genik · immigration agent, 1857–1925
  • Cyril M. Kornbluth · American science fiction author, 1923–1958

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.