Cyrus
#8,362 for girls in 2025, 12 births · #268 for boys in 2025, 1,284 births
Given to boys 99.7% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1880 · 54 births
- Debut · boys
- 54 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 29,208since 1880
Cyrus over time
Rank among boys' names. Cyrus has never cracked the top 200 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 | #8,362 | 12 | #268 | 1,284 |
| 2024 | #8,946 | 11 | #253 | 1,389 |
| 2023 | #10,312 | 9 | #296 | 1,124 |
| 2022 | #9,680 | 10 | #323 | 1,045 |
| 2021 | #9,562 | 10 | #349 | 933 |
| 2020 | #9,546 | 10 | #369 | 843 |
| 2019 | — | #409 | 756 | |
| 2018 | #13,793 | 6 | #389 | 817 |
| 2017 | #15,902 | 5 | #422 | 734 |
| 2016 | — | #426 | 732 | |
| 2015 | — | #469 | 638 | |
| 2014 | #16,513 | 5 | #459 | 640 |
| 2013 | — | #436 | 663 | |
| 2012 | — | #468 | 583 | |
| 2011 | — | #513 | 505 | |
| 2010 | — | #486 | 535 | |
| 2009 | — | #521 | 519 | |
| 2008 | — | #505 | 539 | |
| 2007 | — | #464 | 587 | |
| 2006 | — | #515 | 502 | |
| 2005 | — | #488 | 509 | |
| 2004 | — | #515 | 473 | |
| 2003 | — | #485 | 510 | |
| 2002 | — | #471 | 506 | |
| 2001 | — | #521 | 428 | |
| 2000 | — | #541 | 397 | |
| 1999 | — | #552 | 363 | |
| 1998 | — | #553 | 357 | |
| 1997 | — | #624 | 276 | |
| 1996 | — | #732 | 209 | |
| 1995 | — | #805 | 177 | |
| 1994 | — | #764 | 190 | |
| 1993 | — | #719 | 207 | |
| 1992 | — | #731 | 200 | |
| 1991 | — | #805 | 164 | |
| 1990 | — | #828 | 152 | |
| 1989 | — | #792 | 157 | |
| 1988 | — | #734 | 166 | |
| 1987 | — | #746 | 151 | |
| 1986 | — | #780 | 135 | |
| 1985 | — | #768 | 133 | |
| 1984 | — | #683 | 161 | |
| 1983 | — | #700 | 149 | |
| 1982 | — | #723 | 143 | |
| 1981 | — | #650 | 172 | |
| 1980 | — | #684 | 160 | |
| 1979 | — | #770 | 126 | |
| 1978 | — | #729 | 133 | |
| 1977 | — | #732 | 136 | |
| 1976 | — | #946 | 77 | |
| 1975 | — | #861 | 93 | |
| 1974 | — | #841 | 91 | |
| 1973 | — | #852 | 86 | |
| 1972 | — | #873 | 85 | |
| 1971 | — | #893 | 83 | |
| 1970 | — | #809 | 100 | |
| 1969 | — | #885 | 74 | |
| 1968 | — | #756 | 96 | |
| 1967 | — | #856 | 70 | |
| 1966 | — | #916 | 63 | |
| 1965 | — | #789 | 88 | |
| 1964 | — | #936 | 66 | |
| 1963 | — | #855 | 77 | |
| 1962 | — | #808 | 88 | |
| 1961 | — | #803 | 90 | |
| 1960 | — | #867 | 77 | |
| 1959 | — | #875 | 76 | |
| 1958 | — | #777 | 92 | |
| 1957 | — | #823 | 84 | |
| 1956 | — | #785 | 89 | |
| 1955 | — | #739 | 97 | |
| 1954 | — | #819 | 78 | |
| 1953 | — | #848 | 72 | |
| 1952 | — | #801 | 77 | |
| 1951 | — | #749 | 86 | |
| 1950 | — | #767 | 80 | |
| 1949 | — | #698 | 96 | |
| 1948 | — | #713 | 88 | |
| 1947 | — | #788 | 76 | |
| 1946 | — | #773 | 74 | |
| 1945 | — | #899 | 50 | |
| 1944 | — | #679 | 83 | |
| 1943 | — | #787 | 69 | |
| 1942 | — | #777 | 69 | |
| 1941 | — | #694 | 78 | |
| 1940 | — | #718 | 72 | |
| 1939 | — | #811 | 56 | |
| 1938 | — | #700 | 75 | |
| 1937 | — | #682 | 77 | |
| 1936 | — | #653 | 80 | |
| 1935 | — | #658 | 82 | |
| 1934 | — | #642 | 87 | |
| 1933 | — | #657 | 79 | |
| 1932 | — | #708 | 76 | |
| 1931 | — | #631 | 88 | |
| 1930 | — | #632 | 94 | |
| 1929 | — | #721 | 75 | |
| 1928 | — | #713 | 79 | |
| 1927 | — | #610 | 104 | |
| 1926 | — | #538 | 129 | |
| 1925 | — | #596 | 111 | |
| 1924 | — | #608 | 110 | |
| 1923 | — | #606 | 110 | |
| 1922 | — | #530 | 139 | |
| 1921 | — | #553 | 128 | |
| 1920 | — | #576 | 117 | |
| 1919 | — | #597 | 102 | |
| 1918 | — | #504 | 140 | |
| 1917 | — | #492 | 136 | |
| 1916 | — | #507 | 124 | |
| 1915 | — | #497 | 124 | |
| 1914 | — | #528 | 87 | |
| 1913 | — | #462 | 86 | |
| 1912 | — | #439 | 79 | |
| 1911 | — | #562 | 29 | |
| 1910 | — | #546 | 27 | |
| 1909 | — | #545 | 23 | |
| 1908 | — | #522 | 23 | |
| 1907 | — | #540 | 20 | |
| 1906 | — | #363 | 33 | |
| 1905 | — | #430 | 25 | |
| 1904 | — | #452 | 22 | |
| 1903 | — | #430 | 22 | |
| 1902 | — | #440 | 22 | |
| 1901 | — | #359 | 26 | |
| 1900 | — | #365 | 36 | |
| 1899 | — | #376 | 24 | |
| 1898 | — | #394 | 25 | |
| 1897 | — | #331 | 31 | |
| 1896 | — | #417 | 22 | |
| 1895 | — | #383 | 25 | |
| 1894 | — | #349 | 27 | |
| 1893 | — | #300 | 33 | |
| 1892 | — | #261 | 47 | |
| 1891 | — | #364 | 22 | |
| 1890 | — | #312 | 31 | |
| 1889 | — | #284 | 35 | |
| 1888 | — | #262 | 45 | |
| 1887 | — | #261 | 38 | |
| 1886 | — | #220 | 59 | |
| 1885 | — | #263 | 40 | |
| 1884 | — | #284 | 37 | |
| 1883 | — | #229 | 47 | |
| 1882 | — | #248 | 46 | |
| 1881 | — | #244 | 40 | |
| 1880 | — | #216 | 54 | |
In the first year the SSA published name data, Cyrus was already there! It came in at #216, and was given to 54 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1907–1911, when fewer than 30 boys a year got the name.
See more about Cyrus
- 15 spots since 2024 (#253 → #268)
- 101 spots since 2020 (#369 → #268)
- 201 spots since 2015 (#469 → #268)
- Biggest jump: 214 spots in 1977 (#946 → #732)
- Biggest drop: 220 spots in 1945 (#679 → #899)
- Debuted 1880
- Peaked 1880 at #216 (54 births)
- Births halved by 1891, 11 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 146 yrs · run 1880–2025
- Highest: 1 in 1,240 boys born in 2024 were named Cyrus (0.08%)
- Latest: 1 in 1,330 boys born in 2025 (0.08%)
- Its best rank, #216 in 1880, was only 1 in 2,046 (0.05%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 22.7% of all boys named Cyrus (6,618) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 441 | #216 (1880) | #251 |
| 1890s | 287 | #261 (1892) | #349 |
| 1900s | 252 | #359 (1901) | #445 |
| 1910s | 934 | #439 (1912) | #513 |
| 1920s | 1,102 | #530 (1922) | #605 |
| 1930s | 794 | #631 (1931) | #677 |
| 1940s | 755 | #679 (1944) | #753 |
| 1950s | 831 | #739 (1955) | #798 |
| 1960s | 789 | #756 (1968) | #847 |
| 1970s | 1,010 | #729 (1978) | #831 |
| 1980s | 1,527 | #650 (1981) | #726 |
| 1990s | 2,295 | #552 (1999) | #711 |
| 2000s | 4,970 | #464 (2007) | #503 |
| 2010s | 6,603 | #389 (2018) | #448 |
| 2020s | 6,618 | #253 (2024) | #310 |
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.
Cyrus in 1923
Top boys' names in 1923
More about 1923
boys
1,096,102 boys got a published name in 1923; 1 in 9,965 of them was named Cyrus, which outranked 87.6% of the 4,904 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 32.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).