Meaning not yet researched.
Cyril: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 38 in 2025. Its best rank was #263 in 1902.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #263 in 1902; #3,143 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Cyril in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,143 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1902, at #263.
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Cyril: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 38 boys in 2025. Peak: #263 in 1902 · most boys in one year: 328 (1921).
In 2025, 38 US boys were named Cyril, making it the 3,143rd most common boys’ name of the year, down 138 places from #3,005 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 41 boys named Cyril in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #263, reached in 1902. The most boys given the name in a single year was 328, in 1921. For comparison, it was #2,819 in 2015 and #758 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Cyril in 143 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 5 babies. In all, 12,131 US babies have been given the name, 0.8% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 2,702 babies named Cyril.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 422 US boys were named Cyril; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 61. In 2025 that was about 1 in 44,949 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Cirilo, Kirill and Cyrill 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.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Cirilo (1,128), Kirill (495), Cyrill (36), Cyrille (31), Kyril (28), Syril (18), Zyriel (16), Cyrell (10), Cyriel (5), Cirel (5), Zeril (5).
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 Cyril in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 38 | #3,143 |
| 2024 | — | — | 41 | #3,005 |
| 2023 | — | — | 36 | #3,306 |
| 2022 | — | — | 44 | #2,882 |
| 2021 | — | — | 50 | #2,594 |
| 2020 | — | — | 41 | #2,892 |
| 2019 | — | — | 41 | #2,954 |
| 2018 | — | — | 61 | #2,240 |
| 2017 | — | — | 28 | #3,794 |
| 2016 | — | — | 42 | #2,842 |
| 2015 | — | — | 42 | #2,819 |
| 2014 | — | — | 45 | #2,673 |
| 2013 | — | — | 44 | #2,677 |
| 2012 | — | — | 42 | #2,827 |
| 2011 | — | — | 41 | #2,863 |
| 2010 | — | — | 46 | #2,643 |
| 2009 | — | — | 40 | #2,959 |
| 2008 | — | — | 48 | #2,593 |
| 2007 | — | — | 42 | #2,823 |
| 2006 | — | — | 47 | #2,547 |
| 2005 | — | — | 44 | #2,535 |
| 2004 | — | — | 44 | #2,497 |
| 2003 | — | — | 39 | #2,584 |
| 2002 | — | — | 41 | #2,434 |
| 2001 | — | — | 50 | #2,091 |
| 2000 | — | — | 52 | #1,971 |
| 1999 | — | — | 42 | #2,204 |
| 1998 | — | — | 34 | #2,511 |
| 1997 | — | — | 34 | #2,408 |
| 1996 | — | — | 24 | #3,043 |
| 1995 | — | — | 44 | #1,921 |
| 1994 | — | — | 41 | #2,022 |
| 1993 | — | — | 53 | #1,664 |
| 1992 | — | — | 47 | #1,785 |
| 1991 | — | — | 53 | #1,593 |
| 1990 | — | — | 49 | #1,665 |
| 1989 | — | — | 37 | #1,958 |
| 1988 | 5 | #12,222 | 39 | #1,773 |
| 1987 | — | — | 49 | #1,470 |
| 1986 | — | — | 38 | #1,666 |
| 1985 | — | — | 41 | #1,573 |
| 1984 | — | — | 48 | #1,368 |
| 1983 | — | — | 41 | #1,495 |
| 1982 | — | — | 57 | #1,233 |
| 1981 | — | — | 63 | #1,158 |
| 1980 | — | — | 36 | #1,628 |
| 1979 | — | — | 38 | #1,538 |
| 1978 | — | — | 47 | #1,331 |
| 1977 | — | — | 44 | #1,374 |
| 1976 | — | — | 47 | #1,288 |
| 1975 | — | — | 48 | #1,232 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,050 | 37 | #1,417 |
| 1973 | — | — | 50 | #1,167 |
| 1972 | — | — | 53 | #1,122 |
| 1971 | — | — | 48 | #1,186 |
| 1970 | — | — | 55 | #1,103 |
| 1969 | — | — | 53 | #1,069 |
| 1968 | — | — | 47 | #1,085 |
| 1967 | — | — | 49 | #1,044 |
| 1966 | — | — | 56 | #971 |
| 1965 | — | — | 59 | #957 |
| 1964 | — | — | 57 | #1,002 |
| 1963 | — | — | 64 | #938 |
| 1962 | — | — | 79 | #850 |
| 1961 | — | — | 73 | #898 |
| 1960 | — | — | 76 | #870 |
| 1959 | — | — | 72 | #905 |
| 1958 | — | — | 86 | #810 |
| 1957 | — | — | 85 | #819 |
| 1956 | — | — | 91 | #779 |
| 1955 | — | — | 78 | #830 |
| 1954 | — | — | 92 | #745 |
| 1953 | — | — | 84 | #775 |
| 1952 | — | — | 87 | #757 |
| 1951 | — | — | 88 | #741 |
| 1950 | — | — | 82 | #758 |
| 1949 | — | — | 101 | #681 |
| 1948 | — | — | 87 | #718 |
| 1947 | — | — | 104 | #677 |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,098 | 92 | #674 |
| 1945 | — | — | 89 | #642 |
| 1944 | 5 | #4,697 | 94 | #634 |
| 1943 | — | — | 115 | #592 |
| 1942 | — | — | 130 | #536 |
| 1941 | — | — | 108 | #571 |
| 1940 | — | — | 121 | #532 |
| 1939 | — | — | 108 | #552 |
| 1938 | — | — | 91 | #623 |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,382 | 118 | #533 |
| 1936 | — | — | 132 | #494 |
| 1935 | — | — | 129 | #505 |
| 1934 | — | — | 149 | #460 |
| 1933 | — | — | 151 | #449 |
| 1932 | — | — | 158 | #449 |
| 1931 | — | — | 176 | #428 |
| 1930 | 5 | #4,695 | 211 | #398 |
| 1929 | — | — | 197 | #420 |
| 1928 | — | — | 234 | #384 |
| 1927 | — | — | 265 | #359 |
| 1926 | 5 | #4,990 | 264 | #362 |
| 1925 | 7 | #4,108 | 267 | #364 |
| 1924 | 7 | #4,088 | 282 | #353 |
| 1923 | — | — | 260 | #368 |
| 1922 | 5 | #5,181 | 299 | #340 |
| 1921 | — | — | 328 | #323 |
| 1920 | 5 | #5,144 | 277 | #355 |
| 1919 | 7 | #3,917 | 304 | #320 |
| 1918 | 8 | #3,574 | 312 | #322 |
| 1917 | 6 | #4,204 | 307 | #302 |
| 1916 | 10 | #2,876 | 328 | #283 |
| 1915 | — | — | 273 | #310 |
| 1914 | — | — | 232 | #294 |
| 1913 | 7 | #2,600 | 172 | #302 |
| 1912 | — | — | 146 | #297 |
| 1911 | — | — | 75 | #312 |
| 1910 | — | — | 60 | #319 |
| 1909 | — | — | 48 | #335 |
| 1908 | — | — | 45 | #337 |
| 1907 | — | — | 46 | #313 |
| 1906 | — | — | 45 | #306 |
| 1905 | — | — | 38 | #325 |
| 1904 | — | — | 40 | #314 |
| 1903 | — | — | 42 | #293 |
| 1902 | — | — | 50 | #263 |
| 1901 | — | — | 34 | #305 |
| 1900 | — | — | 41 | #339 |
| 1899 | — | — | 39 | #278 |
| 1898 | — | — | 27 | #380 |
| 1897 | — | — | 36 | #306 |
| 1896 | — | — | 37 | #306 |
| 1895 | — | — | 21 | #429 |
| 1894 | — | — | 28 | #338 |
| 1893 | — | — | 28 | #335 |
| 1892 | — | — | 31 | #338 |
| 1891 | — | — | 10 | #611 |
| 1890 | — | — | 16 | #463 |
| 1889 | — | — | 12 | #561 |
| 1888 | — | — | 10 | #660 |
| 1887 | — | — | 11 | #554 |
| 1885 | — | — | 12 | #555 |
| 1884 | — | — | 5 | #1,003 |
| 1883 | — | — | 7 | #739 |
| 1880 | — | — | 5 | #941 |
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).