Cyrus is the Latin form of the Greek name Kyros, that derived from Old Persian Kūruš. This name can be translated as ‘young’, ‘like sun’, or ‘hero’. The modern Persian form is Kūroš.
Cyrus is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.
The name Cyrus isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Cyrus ranks 389. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 4 were named Cyrus. In the entire USA, approximately 18,489 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Cyrus. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.
Cyrus is the Latin form of the Greek name Kyros, that derived from Old Persian Kūruš. This name can be translated as ‘young’, ‘like sun’, or ‘hero’. The modern Persian form is Kūroš.
This old name... came into use in English-speaking countries among the Puritans after the Protestant Reformation.
For more than 140 years, parents decide to name their son Cyrus annualy. This means that there have been boys named Cyrus who witnessed the first Labor Day parade in the U.S. or followed Albert Einstein's career. The name has 'always been there', but never ranked in the top 100, and thus men named Cyrus have consistently been special. The name was particularly popular a long time ago in the 19th century. In one particular year, long before the first passenger flight and even before there was the first real radio, parents liked Cyrus even more than any other time: in 1880, it holds its present record at rank #206 in the list of the most popular boys' names.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Cyrus was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Cyrus has never been ranked higher than #206. In 2022, he rivaled the 312 names that preceded him on the list. In total, 1,042 boys named Cyrus were born in this year. For comparison: 30 years earlier, in 1992, when possibly the parents of the now very young Cyrus were born, there have been 200 newborns who received this name.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter C is a frequent initial letter for boys’ names. This is because 5.2% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of boys' names, by the way, are J, A and D.
With five letters, the name Cyrus is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
With 5.2% of all boys' names that begin with a C, this first letter is thus much more common than the average of all letters. And which boys’ name beginning with C do you think is the most common in the US? The answer is... Charles.
If your name is Cyrus and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Cyrus, you can simply say:
Cat
Yoyo
Rocket
Unicorn
Sun
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Cyrus
Cyrus
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
C
Y
R
U
S
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
C
Y
R
U
S
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Cyrus sounds like this:
