Cyril Forename
3,317th
Most Common
name in the World
Approximately 315,489 people bear this name
Most prevalent in:
France
Highest density in:
Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha
Cyril Forename Definition:
A male name. Greek Κύριλλος, probably a derivative of Κύριος ‘lord’, ‘master’. There were two saints of this name, both doctors of the Church, St Cyril of Jerusalem d. 387, and St Cyril of Alexandria d. 444. The name is first found in use in England in the 17th C (e.
Read More About This ForenameCyril Forename Distribution
| Place | Gender | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| France | 100% | 116,941 | 1:568 | 136 |
| Nigeria | 100% | 36,013 | 1:4,931 | 810 |
| England | 100% | 21,848 | 1:2,545 | 381 |
| Philippines | 62% | 17,939 | 1:5,909 | 953 |
| South Africa | 100% | 15,695 | 1:3,475 | 664 |
| Ghana | 96% | 12,361 | 1:2,183 | 362 |
| United States | 100% | 11,718 | 1:30,938 | 2,110 |
| Sri Lanka | - | 6,653 | 1:3,126 | 542 |
| Canada | 100% | 6,022 | 1:5,502 | 824 |
| Sierra Leone | - | 6,011 | 1:1,179 | 248 |
| India | 98% | 5,622 | 1:216,094 | 22,019 |
| Jamaica | - | 4,696 | 1:614 | 145 |
| Slovakia | 100% | 4,639 | 1:1,145 | 151 |
| Cameroon | 100% | 2,788 | 1:7,751 | 1,025 |
| Madagascar | - | 2,721 | 1:8,684 | 1,463 |
| Ireland | 100% | 2,436 | 1:1,906 | 296 |
| Northern Ireland | 100% | 2,371 | 1:777 | 176 |
| Wales | 100% | 2,166 | 1:1,429 | 304 |
| Myanmar | - | 2,100 | 1:24,737 | 564 |
| Kenya | - | 2,077 | 1:22,295 | 2,098 |
| DR Congo | 99% | 1,808 | 1:40,834 | 2,811 |
| Egypt | 97% | 1,735 | 1:52,969 | 2,985 |
| Switzerland | 100% | 1,698 | 1:4,837 | 687 |
| Zimbabwe | 99% | 1,535 | 1:10,048 | 1,355 |
| Malaysia | 95% | 1,506 | 1:20,219 | 2,051 |
| Israel | 98% | 1,406 | 1:5,976 | 941 |
| Czechia | 100% | 1,362 | 1:7,824 | 408 |
| Mauritius | - | 1,300 | 1:998 | 145 |
| Togo | - | 1,236 | 1:5,857 | 938 |
| Netherlands | 100% | 1,155 | 1:14,634 | 1,562 |
| Australia | - | 881 | 1:15,502 | 1,200 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 100% | 786 | 1:1,732 | 342 |
| Uganda | 99% | 780 | 1:52,509 | 3,058 |
| Gabon | 100% | 762 | 1:2,472 | 591 |
| New Zealand | - | 759 | 1:5,976 | 779 |
| Belgium | 100% | 734 | 1:15,654 | 1,366 |
| Papua New Guinea | 99% | 661 | 1:12,333 | 1,242 |
| Bahamas | - | 633 | 1:631 | 155 |
| Morocco | - | 628 | 1:54,695 | 2,204 |
| Poland | 100% | 518 | 1:73,411 | 1,760 |
| Thailand | 100% | 511 | 1:137,115 | 10,352 |
| Swaziland | - | 487 | 1:2,670 | 569 |
| Guyana | 100% | 473 | 1:1,614 | 296 |
| Saudi Arabia | - | 466 | 1:66,121 | 7,124 |
| Scotland | 100% | 441 | 1:12,132 | 771 |
| Lebanon | 87% | 440 | 1:12,790 | 1,205 |
| Oman | - | 421 | 1:9,759 | 1,181 |
| Tanzania | 100% | 388 | 1:136,052 | 6,703 |
| Germany | 100% | 346 | 1:279,416 | 3,747 |
| Chad | 100% | 309 | 1:44,008 | 4,322 |
| French Polynesia | - | 308 | 1:902 | 202 |
| New Caledonia | 100% | 304 | 1:889 | 206 |
| Suriname | 100% | 263 | 1:2,102 | 491 |
| Saint Lucia | 100% | 262 | 1:679 | 92 |
| Portugal | - | 221 | 1:47,108 | 1,672 |
| Kuwait | - | 209 | 1:18,111 | 1,954 |
| Dominican Republic | - | 198 | 1:52,683 | 3,457 |
| Barbados | - | 191 | 1:1,517 | 353 |
| China | - | 181 | 1:7,547,270 | 59,408 |
| Bahrain | - | 178 | 1:7,577 | 1,232 |
| Ivory Coast | 97% | 174 | 1:132,620 | 7,459 |
| Congo | 97% | 170 | 1:29,466 | 2,676 |
| Malawi | 100% | 169 | 1:101,256 | 5,457 |
| Botswana | 100% | 158 | 1:13,826 | 1,833 |
| Brazil | 100% | 147 | 1:1,457,389 | 33,965 |
| Belize | 100% | 140 | 1:2,531 | 578 |
| Seychelles | 100% | 136 | 1:681 | 158 |
| Benin | 100% | 129 | 1:81,983 | 5,454 |
| Qatar | 98% | 123 | 1:19,265 | 2,894 |
| Zambia | - | 123 | 1:128,901 | 5,435 |
| Hong Kong | - | 113 | 1:68,608 | 2,630 |
| Singapore | 92% | 110 | 1:57,155 | 6,795 |
| Grenada | 100% | 109 | 1:992 | 194 |
| Liberia | 100% | 108 | 1:40,852 | 2,302 |
| Spain | 100% | 105 | 1:443,143 | 5,975 |
| Japan | - | 99 | 1:1,292,788 | 16,644 |
| Haiti | 100% | 93 | 1:115,344 | 6,271 |
| Sweden | 96% | 90 | 1:109,532 | 4,582 |
| Russia | 100% | 88 | 1:1,639,019 | 11,834 |
| Namibia | - | 86 | 1:27,956 | 2,251 |
| Jersey | - | 80 | 1:1,250 | 269 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | - | 79 | 1:1,258 | 267 |
| United States Virgin Islands | - | 79 | 1:1,389 | 288 |
| Micronesia | - | 78 | 1:1,365 | 219 |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 100% | 78 | 1:1,431 | 256 |
| Luxembourg | 100% | 76 | 1:7,422 | 687 |
| Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha | - | 67 | 1:87 | 15 |
| Brunei | - | 60 | 1:6,993 | 634 |
| Burkina Faso | 100% | 60 | 1:306,324 | 12,066 |
| Norway | 100% | 58 | 1:88,488 | 3,003 |
| Taiwan | 100% | 55 | 1:432,176 | 26,342 |
| Denmark | - | 54 | 1:104,620 | 2,976 |
| Solomon Islands | 100% | 54 | 1:10,758 | 1,056 |
| Panama | 100% | 49 | 1:79,726 | 4,327 |
| Pakistan | 100% | 42 | 1:4,627,564 | 46,557 |
| Bermuda | - | 39 | 1:1,662 | 386 |
| Italy | 100% | 37 | 1:1,650,327 | 12,248 |
| Saint Kitts and Nevis | 100% | 37 | 1:1,483 | 344 |
| Angola | - | 36 | 1:749,072 | 2,190 |
| Monaco | 100% | 34 | 1:1,131 | 236 |
| Turks and Caicos Islands | 100% | 29 | 1:1,197 | 279 |
| Chile | 100% | 27 | 1:652,119 | 7,084 |
| United Arab Emirates | - | 27 | 1:264,889 | 16,297 |
| Senegal | 100% | 26 | 1:560,821 | 6,877 |
| British Virgin Islands | 100% | 25 | 1:1,250 | 294 |
| Malta | - | 23 | 1:18,668 | 1,434 |
| Greece | 100% | 22 | 1:497,025 | 6,710 |
| Venezuela | 100% | 21 | 1:1,438,185 | 27,865 |
| Indonesia | - | 20 | 1:12,898,183 | 378,977 |
| Austria | 100% | 17 | 1:500,835 | 4,712 |
| Saint Barthelemy | - | 16 | 1:597 | 129 |
| Sudan | 100% | 16 | 1:2,362,936 | 3,917 |
| Ecuador | - | 15 | 1:1,181,795 | 8,518 |
| Finland | 86% | 15 | 1:365,546 | 4,839 |
| Cyprus | 100% | 13 | 1:67,006 | 2,311 |
| Iceland | - | 13 | 1:28,155 | 1,788 |
| Cayman Islands | - | 11 | 1:5,573 | 911 |
| Nicaragua | 100% | 11 | 1:547,121 | 9,117 |
| South Korea | - | 11 | 1:504,038 | 12,654 |
| Belarus | 100% | 10 | 1:948,238 | 5,152 |
| Guam | - | 10 | 1:16,065 | 1,791 |
| Bangladesh | - | 9 | 1:17,717,930 | 19,122 |
| Fiji | - | 9 | 1:99,153 | 1,900 |
| Gambia | - | 9 | 1:214,066 | 587 |
| Saint Pierre and Miquelon | 100% | 9 | 1:702 | 192 |
| Afghanistan | 50% | 8 | 1:4,077,940 | 25,891 |
| Honduras | - | 8 | 1:1,102,183 | 11,893 |
| Ukraine | - | 8 | 1:5,687,488 | 9,604 |
| Vietnam | - | 8 | 1:11,577,889 | 4,258 |
| Croatia | 100% | 7 | 1:602,439 | 6,285 |
| Dominica | - | 7 | 1:10,782 | 397 |
| Tunisia | - | 7 | 1:96,700 | 5,802 |
| Algeria | - | 6 | 1:6,362,787 | 10,855 |
| Costa Rica | 80% | 6 | 1:794,658 | 9,692 |
| Bulgaria | - | 5 | 1:1,398,078 | 12,856 |
| Colombia | - | 5 | 1:9,555,785 | 40,229 |
| Mexico | 100% | 5 | 1:24,828,885 | 53,479 |
| Anguilla | 100% | 4 | 1:3,314 | 681 |
| Argentina | 100% | 4 | 1:10,693,311 | 19,797 |
| Azerbaijan | - | 4 | 1:2,410,736 | 23,569 |
| Rwanda | 100% | 4 | 1:2,842,858 | 2,668 |
| Guinea | - | 3 | 1:3,952,882 | 6,312 |
| Jordan | 100% | 3 | 1:2,942,258 | 8,136 |
| Macau | - | 3 | 1:202,736 | 1,370 |
| Montserrat | - | 3 | 1:1,625 | 276 |
| Georgia | - | 2 | 1:1,869,233 | 20,119 |
| Iran | - | 2 | 1:39,248,434 | 50,459 |
| Isle of Man | - | 2 | 1:42,512 | 455 |
| Marshall Islands | 100% | 2 | 1:25,615 | 3,101 |
| Nauru | 100% | 2 | 1:5,964 | 459 |
| Peru | 100% | 2 | 1:15,895,727 | 74,652 |
| Puerto Rico | - | 2 | 1:1,775,150 | 6,781 |
| Serbia | - | 2 | 1:3,572,860 | 8,125 |
| Turkey | 100% | 2 | 1:38,900,854 | 64,839 |
| Albania | - | 1 | 1:3,046,570 | 49,159 |
| Andorra | - | 1 | 1:82,887 | 1,356 |
| Armenia | - | 1 | 1:2,918,753 | 14,910 |
| Bolivia | - | 1 | 1:10,601,404 | 9,299 |
| Burundi | - | 1 | 1:9,906,559 | 2,558 |
| Cambodia | - | 1 | 1:16,273,330 | 74,610 |
| Cuba | - | 1 | 1:11,506,552 | 13,531 |
| Djibouti | - | 1 | 1:915,664 | 2,132 |
| El Salvador | - | 1 | 1:6,341,786 | 16,428 |
| Equatorial Guinea | - | 1 | 1:1,137,689 | 1,044 |
| Ethiopia | - | 1 | 1:97,560,133 | 29,608 |
| Falkland Islands | - | 1 | 1:3,142 | 392 |
| Gibraltar | - | 1 | 1:34,138 | 985 |
| Guernsey | - | 1 | 1:63,331 | 901 |
| Hungary | - | 1 | 1:9,791,771 | 6,528 |
| Iraq | - | 1 | 1:35,017,859 | 22,933 |
| Kazakhstan | 100% | 1 | 1:17,746,845 | 44,366 |
| Latvia | - | 1 | 1:2,015,645 | 6,531 |
| Lesotho | 100% | 1 | 1:2,039,997 | 47,971 |
| Libya | - | 1 | 1:6,221,309 | 3,060 |
| Liechtenstein | - | 1 | 1:37,856 | 1,091 |
| Mozambique | - | 1 | 1:27,243,357 | 5,091 |
| Nepal | - | 1 | 1:28,487,352 | 119,417 |
| Niger | - | 1 | 1:19,183,994 | 77,442 |
| Romania | - | 1 | 1:20,051,976 | 55,376 |
| Saint Martin | - | 1 | 1:35,746 | 277 |
| Samoa | - | 1 | 1:195,190 | 1,348 |
| Somalia | - | 1 | 1:13,525,867 | 7,760 |
| Uruguay | - | 1 | 1:3,427,637 | 13,958 |
| Yemen | - | 1 | 1:26,296,751 | 14,474 |
The alternate forms: Çyril (1) are calculated separately.
Cyril (13,442) may also be a surname.
Cyril Forename Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
A male name. Greek Κύριλλος, probably a derivative of Κύριος ‘lord’, ‘master’. There were two saints of this name, both doctors of the Church, St Cyril of Jerusalem d. 387, and St Cyril of Alexandria d. 444. The name is first found in use in England in the 17th C (e.g. Sir Cyril Wyche c. 1620-90) but did not come into general use until the 19th C, when it was favoured, like other names of early Fathers of the Church, by the Tractarians. It is now a rather common name.
— The Oxford Dictionary of Christian Names (1947) by E. G. Withycombe
Greek Κύριλλος; (Kyrillos), literally ‘lordly’ (Gr. κύριος, ‘a lord or master’), this name ‘fell to the lot of two great doctors of the Church—patriarchs, the one of Alexandria, the other of Jerusalem; also to two martyrs..., and thus it became widely known. The Welsh had it as Girioel, which... is nearer the pronunciation than our own... soft C’. (Yonge.)
— Name This Child (1959) by Eric Partridge
CYRILL. From the Latin name Cyrillus, a diminutive of Cyrus, q, v.
— Prænomina (1882) by Richard Stephen Charnock
Greek (masculine) - Lord.
— What is Your Name? (1863) by Sophy Moody
A Greek name, meaning: Form of Cyrus.
— Dictionary of Given Names with Origins and Meanings (1934) by Flora Haines Loughead
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