Cyrus
2025 SSA
2025 SSA
About Cyrus
Cyrus is one of those surprising names that have always ranked among the Top 1000 boy names in the US. On an upward trend since the mid-90s, Cyrus now sits in that comfortable place between too popular and too unusual.
Long popular in the Iranian community, this name of the founder of the Persian Empire has had a more down-home, corncob pipe-smoking image for most Americans in the past, but today it's one of those antique names that sounds fresh again.
The powerful Cyrus the Great was the fifth century B.C. Persian leader who conquered Babylon to establish his empire. He is noted in the Old Testament as freeing the Jewish captives in Babylonia and permitting them to return to their homelands. Since his name is mentioned in the Old Testament, it was fashionable with the Puritans.
Cyrus McCormick was the inventor of the reaper, and Cyrus Vance was Secretary of State under Jimmy Carter. The name is also associated these days with singer Miley Cyrus.
Claire Danes and Hugh Dancy named their baby boy Cyrus, and there have been Cyruses on Gossip Girl, Law & Order and Scandal. Ciro is the catchy Italian version.
The name has a variety of possible meanings, including "sun", "young", and "one who bestows care" from Persian and "lordly" from Greek. Additionally, the pronunciation varies depending on where you are, SIE-ruhs being most familiar in English, while see-roos may be used in Persian.
Cyrus is also given to girls, where it ranks #8481 in the US.
Pronounced SY-rus.
As of October 2026, Cyrus ranked #268 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #216 in 1880, Nameberry popularity #85.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #459 | 640 | 333.2 |
| 2015 | #469 | 637 | 332.3 |
| 2016 | #426 | 732 | 385.7 |
| 2017 | #423 | 734 | 396.6 |
| 2018 | #389 | 817 | 449.9 |
| 2019 | #408 | 755 | 420.8 |
| 2020 | #369 | 842 | 487.8 |
| 2021 | #349 | 933 | 533.3 |
| 2022 | #324 | 1,043 | 597.4 |
| 2023 | #296 | 1,122 | 655.9 |
| 2024 | #254 | 1,380 | 801 |
| 2025 | #268 | 1,284 | 751.7 |
World rankings
Cyrus for boys
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Cyrus on lists
Famous Cyruss
- Cyrus the GreatBoy
Cyrus I of Anshan, and Cyrus the Younger, Kings of Persia
- Cyrus Roberts VanceBoy
U.S. Secretary of State
- Cyrus Roberts Vance Jr.Boy
New York District Attorney
- Cyrus Danall GrayBoy
American NFL football player
- Cyrus Hall McCormickBoy
American inventor
- Cyrus Sylvester Frederick ChristieBoy
Irish footballer
- Cyrus Berenice KouandjioBoy
American NFL football player
- Cyrus HabibBoy
American politician; 16th Lieutenant Governor of Washington
- Cyrus VillanuevaBoy
Australian pop singer
- Cyrus Rowlett "C. R." SmithBoy
American former CEO of American Airlines
- Cyrus Willard "Cy" KendallBoy
American actor
- Cyrus PeirceBoy
American educator
- Cyrus Cotton "Cy" HungerfordBoy
American editorial cartoonist
- Cyrus Alessandro TwomblyBoy
son of painter Cy Twombly
- Cyrus Zachariah ShepherdBoy
Oppenheim, son of actress Cybill Shepherd
- Cyrus Michael Christopher DancyBoy
son of actors Claire Danes and Hugh Dancy
Cyrus in pop culture
- Cyrus FawcettBoy
main character in 2010 film "Cyrus"
- Cyrus FoleyBoy
character on American soap "Guiding Light"
- Cyrus "The Virus" GrissomBoy
character in the 1997 film "Con,Air"
- Cyrus BeeneBoy
a character on TV's "Scandal"
- Cyrus GoodmanBoy
character on TV's "Andi Mack"
- Cyrus LupoBoy
a detective on TV's "Law & Order"
- Cyrus RoseBoy
minor character on TV's "Gossip Girl"
- CyrusBoy
character in Pokemon Diamond, Pearl and Platinum
- CyrusBoy
a genie, on TV's "Once Upon a Time in Wonderland"
- Cyrus GoldBoy
real name of Solomon Grundy in DC Universe
- Cyrus PinkneyBoy
character in DC Universe
- Cyrus BorgBoy
minor character in the LEGO Ninjago TV show
- Cyrus SilkBoy
character in Jenny Nimmo's "The Children of the Red King" series
- Cyrus BestBoy
character in "The Sims" video game series
- Cyrus DeBargeBoy
main character in 2012 film "Let it Shine"
- Cyrus MontroseBoy
character in "The Alienist"
- Cyrus AlbrightBoy
a character in the video game "Octopath Traveler"
- Cyrus AndersBoy
a character in the podcast "Six Minutes"