Cid
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Cid is a boys' name of Arabic origin, meaning “lord”. In 2025 it ranked 9,710th for boys in the US (7 babies).
What does Cid mean?
Arabic: Spanish title El Cid, from Arabic sayyid 'lord'
“lord”
From El Cid, the title of Rodrigo Diaz, an 11th-century Castilian warlord, derived from Arabic sayyid, meaning lord.
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Is Cid a girl's or a boy's name?
Cid is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Cid in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #9,710among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 7about 1 in 240,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 7 boys in the US were named Cid, making it the 9,710th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 12,016th. Its busiest year was 1971, with 10 boys. It first appears in the records in 1962.
2025 had more boys named Cid than any year since 2019.
Half of all the boys named Cid in the US since 1880 were born between 1972 and 2012, the years shaded on the chart below.
Cid in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #9,710 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 5 | #12,016 |
| 2019 | 9 | #8,209 |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 5 | #12,241 |
| 2016 | 8 | #8,811 |
| 2015 | 9 | #8,035 |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 6 | #10,722 |
| 2012 | 7 | #9,703 |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 9 | #8,133 |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 7 | #9,864 |
| 2007 | 6 | #10,915 |
| 2006 | 6 | #10,655 |
| 2005 | 7 | #9,108 |
| 2004 | 7 | #8,921 |
| 2003 | 7 | #8,636 |
| 2002 | 5 | #10,660 |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 5 | #10,341 |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 6 | #8,472 |
| 1997 | 6 | #8,104 |
| 1996 | 0 | – |
| 1995 | 0 | – |
| 1994 | 5 | #8,794 |
| 1993 | 0 | – |
| 1992 | 0 | – |
| 1991 | 9 | #5,513 |
| 1990 | 0 | – |
| 1989 | 0 | – |
| 1988 | 0 | – |
| 1987 | 0 | – |
| 1986 | 0 | – |
| 1985 | 0 | – |
| 1984 | 5 | #6,311 |
| 1983 | 0 | – |
| 1982 | 0 | – |
| 1981 | 0 | – |
| 1980 | 0 | – |
| 1979 | 0 | – |
| 1978 | 5 | #5,769 |
| 1977 | 0 | – |
| 1976 | 0 | – |
| 1975 | 5 | #5,462 |
| 1974 | 0 | – |
| 1973 | 0 | – |
| 1972 | 6 | #4,438 |
| 1971 | 10 | #3,144 |
| 1970 | 8 | #3,519 |
| 1969 | 7 | #3,594 |
| 1968 | 0 | – |
| 1967 | 8 | #2,984 |
| 1966 | 0 | – |
| 1965 | 0 | – |
| 1964 | 5 | #4,038 |
| 1963 | 7 | #3,317 |
| 1962 | 6 | #3,638 |
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