Cyan Name Meaning, Origin & Popularity

About Cyan

Cyan is a highly unusual blue-green color name, a classmate of Celadon and Cerulean. It does come with the homey nickname Cy.

Cyan for girls#5761 US

Cyan is an attractive color names, but for a girl, better go all the way to Cyane, the name of a Sicilian nymph who lived in a blue pool.

Pronounced SY-an; SY-ahn.

As of November 2026, Cyan ranked #4155 for boys and #5761 for girls in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #2849 for boys in 2023 and #1648 for girls in 1998.

Popularity & trends

US popularity — history

US rank, lower is more popular · SSA data 2014–2025

Boys #4,155

Girls #4,937

20142025

18802025

Data table

Year	US rank · boys	Births · boys	US rank · girls	Births · girls
2014	—	0	#4,291	34
2015	#4,198	24	—	0
2016	#4,814	20	—	0
2017	—	0	—	0
2018	—	0	—	0
2019	—	0	#4,937	27
2020	—	0	—	0
2021	—	0	—	0
2022	#4,457	23	—	0
2023	#2,849	44	—	0
2024	#2,996	41	—	0
2025	#4,155	25	—	0

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