Meaning not yet researched.
Syrus: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 88 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,481 in 2023.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,481 in 2023; #1,820 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Syrus in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,820 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2023, at #1,481.
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Syrus: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 88 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,481 in 2023 · most boys in one year: 122 (2023).
In 2025, 88 US boys were named Syrus, making it the 1,820th most common boys’ name of the year, down 113 places from #1,707 in 2024. That is 10 fewer than the 98 boys named Syrus in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,481, reached in 2023. That year also had the most boys given the name: 122. For comparison, it was #1,976 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Syrus in 38 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1982 with 8 babies. In all, 2,079 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 743 babies named Syrus.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 947 US boys were named Syrus; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 122. In 2025 that was about 1 in 19,410 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Syrus ranked highest in Nebraska in 2025, at #507 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Cyrus (29,286 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Sirius, Siris and Seras 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: Sirius (729), Siris (138), Seras (53).
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 Syrus in the open dataset we use.
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 45 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nebraska | 5 | #507 | — |
| Kansas | 5 | #683 | — |
| Florida | 7 | #1,604 | — |
| California | 9 | #1,813 | #1,622 |
| New York | 5 | #2,008 | — |
| Texas | 7 | #2,259 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 88 | #1,820 |
| 2024 | — | — | 98 | #1,707 |
| 2023 | — | — | 122 | #1,481 |
| 2022 | — | — | 122 | #1,492 |
| 2021 | — | — | 101 | #1,656 |
| 2020 | — | — | 98 | #1,646 |
| 2019 | — | — | 90 | #1,752 |
| 2018 | — | — | 84 | #1,820 |
| 2017 | — | — | 74 | #1,956 |
| 2016 | — | — | 70 | #2,043 |
| 2015 | — | — | 74 | #1,976 |
| 2014 | — | — | 69 | #2,061 |
| 2013 | — | — | 90 | #1,673 |
| 2012 | — | — | 68 | #2,045 |
| 2011 | — | — | 55 | #2,337 |
| 2010 | — | — | 69 | #2,003 |
| 2009 | — | — | 63 | #2,162 |
| 2008 | — | — | 73 | #1,965 |
| 2007 | — | — | 67 | #2,066 |
| 2006 | — | — | 66 | #2,031 |
| 2005 | — | — | 44 | #2,560 |
| 2004 | — | — | 52 | #2,232 |
| 2003 | — | — | 61 | #1,931 |
| 2002 | — | — | 39 | #2,549 |
| 2001 | — | — | 45 | #2,270 |
| 2000 | — | — | 41 | #2,370 |
| 1999 | — | — | 27 | #3,090 |
| 1998 | — | — | 38 | #2,343 |
| 1997 | — | — | 24 | #3,144 |
| 1996 | — | — | 9 | #6,425 |
| 1995 | — | — | 7 | #7,699 |
| 1994 | — | — | 8 | #6,897 |
| 1993 | — | — | 8 | #6,742 |
| 1992 | — | — | 10 | #5,587 |
| 1991 | — | — | 6 | #8,113 |
| 1990 | — | — | 6 | #7,998 |
| 1986 | — | — | 5 | #7,691 |
| 1982 | — | — | 8 | #4,937 |
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).