Meaning not yet researched.
Cy: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 52 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,037 in 1902.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,037 in 1902; #2,540 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Cy in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,540 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1902, at #1,037.
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Cy: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 52 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,037 in 1902 · most boys in one year: 117 (2010).
In 2025, 52 US boys were named Cy, making it the 2,540th most common boys’ name of the year, down 189 places from #2,351 in 2024. That is 8 fewer than the 60 boys named Cy in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,037, reached in 1902. The most boys given the name in a single year was 117, in 2010. For comparison, it was #2,215 in 2015 and #1,710 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Cy in 112 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1902 with 6 babies. In all, 3,921 US babies have been given the name, 0.6% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 897 babies named Cy.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 602 US boys were named Cy; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 75. In 2025 that was about 1 in 32,848 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Cy ranked highest in New York in 2025, at #1,004 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Zya (1,301 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Sy, Si and Sya are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Sy (972), Si (185), Sya (139), Zi (132), Sye (118), Zy (84), Cye (78), Ze (39), Zye (37), Ciya (27), Cee (18), Se (18), and more.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Cy in the open dataset we use.
Cy is listed as a nickname for Cyrus.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 48 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 12 | #1,004 | — |
| Texas | 6 | #2,335 | #1,794 |
| California | 5 | #2,544 | #1,916 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 52 | #2,540 |
| 2024 | — | — | 60 | #2,351 |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,430 | 75 | #2,015 |
| 2022 | — | — | 58 | #2,416 |
| 2021 | — | — | 45 | #2,785 |
| 2020 | — | — | 65 | #2,144 |
| 2019 | — | — | 72 | #2,023 |
| 2018 | — | — | 68 | #2,086 |
| 2017 | — | — | 45 | #2,721 |
| 2016 | 6 | #14,743 | 62 | #2,186 |
| 2015 | — | — | 61 | #2,215 |
| 2014 | — | — | 71 | #2,006 |
| 2013 | — | — | 99 | #1,572 |
| 2012 | — | — | 109 | #1,479 |
| 2011 | — | — | 99 | #1,573 |
| 2010 | — | — | 117 | #1,416 |
| 2009 | — | — | 99 | #1,607 |
| 2008 | — | — | 104 | #1,545 |
| 2007 | — | — | 113 | #1,434 |
| 2006 | — | — | 105 | #1,461 |
| 2005 | 5 | #17,082 | 106 | #1,403 |
| 2004 | — | — | 88 | #1,519 |
| 2003 | — | — | 68 | #1,768 |
| 2002 | — | — | 55 | #2,003 |
| 2001 | — | — | 74 | #1,603 |
| 2000 | — | — | 80 | #1,504 |
| 1999 | 5 | #14,925 | 71 | #1,560 |
| 1998 | — | — | 61 | #1,682 |
| 1997 | — | — | 45 | #1,998 |
| 1996 | — | — | 46 | #1,938 |
| 1995 | — | — | 52 | #1,712 |
| 1994 | — | — | 48 | #1,801 |
| 1993 | — | — | 48 | #1,772 |
| 1992 | — | — | 44 | #1,851 |
| 1991 | — | — | 46 | #1,750 |
| 1990 | — | — | 40 | #1,909 |
| 1989 | — | — | 35 | #2,038 |
| 1988 | — | — | 24 | #2,451 |
| 1987 | — | — | 29 | #2,066 |
| 1986 | — | — | 38 | #1,665 |
| 1985 | — | — | 32 | #1,841 |
| 1984 | — | — | 27 | #1,988 |
| 1983 | — | — | 38 | #1,567 |
| 1982 | — | — | 40 | #1,544 |
| 1981 | — | — | 45 | #1,414 |
| 1980 | — | — | 38 | #1,576 |
| 1979 | — | — | 34 | #1,680 |
| 1978 | — | — | 27 | #1,876 |
| 1977 | — | — | 34 | #1,614 |
| 1976 | — | — | 38 | #1,455 |
| 1975 | — | — | 37 | #1,459 |
| 1974 | — | — | 33 | #1,522 |
| 1973 | — | — | 30 | #1,590 |
| 1972 | — | — | 27 | #1,689 |
| 1971 | — | — | 19 | #2,139 |
| 1970 | — | — | 21 | #1,948 |
| 1969 | — | — | 15 | #2,235 |
| 1968 | — | — | 18 | #1,906 |
| 1967 | — | — | 14 | #2,163 |
| 1966 | — | — | 21 | #1,689 |
| 1965 | — | — | 17 | #1,936 |
| 1964 | — | — | 21 | #1,747 |
| 1963 | — | — | 22 | #1,706 |
| 1962 | — | — | 23 | #1,676 |
| 1961 | — | — | 22 | #1,742 |
| 1960 | — | — | 23 | #1,699 |
| 1959 | — | — | 20 | #1,815 |
| 1958 | — | — | 11 | #2,533 |
| 1957 | — | — | 21 | #1,763 |
| 1956 | — | — | 25 | #1,575 |
| 1955 | — | — | 32 | #1,346 |
| 1954 | — | — | 27 | #1,469 |
| 1953 | — | — | 20 | #1,722 |
| 1952 | — | — | 21 | #1,672 |
| 1951 | — | — | 15 | #1,995 |
| 1950 | — | — | 19 | #1,710 |
| 1949 | — | — | 11 | #2,366 |
| 1948 | — | — | 6 | #3,386 |
| 1947 | — | — | 15 | #2,005 |
| 1946 | — | — | 10 | #2,434 |
| 1945 | — | — | 9 | #2,429 |
| 1944 | — | — | 8 | #2,678 |
| 1943 | — | — | 5 | #3,648 |
| 1942 | — | — | 7 | #2,989 |
| 1941 | — | — | 7 | #2,927 |
| 1939 | — | — | 7 | #2,884 |
| 1938 | — | — | 8 | #2,689 |
| 1936 | — | — | 7 | #2,933 |
| 1935 | — | — | 5 | #3,777 |
| 1934 | — | — | 11 | #2,297 |
| 1932 | — | — | 8 | #2,896 |
| 1931 | — | — | 8 | #2,906 |
| 1930 | — | — | 7 | #3,360 |
| 1929 | — | — | 6 | #3,638 |
| 1928 | — | — | 8 | #3,132 |
| 1926 | — | — | 8 | #3,192 |
| 1924 | — | — | 9 | #3,075 |
| 1923 | — | — | 9 | #2,993 |
| 1922 | — | — | 13 | #2,367 |
| 1921 | — | — | 5 | #4,489 |
| 1920 | — | — | 5 | #4,445 |
| 1919 | — | — | 10 | #2,717 |
| 1918 | — | — | 11 | #2,581 |
| 1917 | — | — | 5 | #4,108 |
| 1916 | — | — | 10 | #2,589 |
| 1915 | — | — | 16 | #1,806 |
| 1914 | — | — | 7 | #2,713 |
| 1913 | — | — | 6 | #2,561 |
| 1912 | — | — | 11 | #1,548 |
| 1911 | — | — | 5 | #1,798 |
| 1907 | — | — | 5 | #1,388 |
| 1902 | — | — | 6 | #1,037 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).