Cyprus
Boy · SY-prus · Greek
Cyprus is a boys' name of Greek origin. In 2025 it ranked 3,582nd for boys in the US (31 babies).
What does Cyprus mean?
Greek: name of the island, from Greek Kypros
Name of the Mediterranean island, which Greek myth made the birthplace of Aphrodite.
- Say it
- SY-prus
Is Cyprus a girl's or a boy's name?
Cyprus is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 31 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Cyprus in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #3,582among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 31about 1 in 55,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Rising fastup 100% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 31 boys in the US were named Cyprus, making it the 3,582nd most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,695th. It first appears in the records in 2003.
2025 had the most boys named Cyprus of any year since it first appeared, in 2003.
Half of all the boys named Cyprus in the US since 1880 were born between 2013 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 141 boys in the US were given Cyprus or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,214, up from #3,582 for this spelling alone.
- Cypress 110
- Cyprus 31
Cyprus in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 31 | #3,582 |
| 2024 | 25 | #4,197 |
| 2023 | 18 | #5,250 |
| 2022 | 20 | #4,846 |
| 2021 | 25 | #4,114 |
| 2020 | 15 | #5,695 |
| 2019 | 11 | #7,168 |
| 2018 | 11 | #7,132 |
| 2017 | 16 | #5,522 |
| 2016 | 10 | #7,600 |
| 2015 | 12 | #6,671 |
| 2014 | 6 | #10,711 |
| 2013 | 12 | #6,598 |
| 2012 | 9 | #8,152 |
| 2011 | 7 | #9,593 |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 10 | #7,687 |
| 2008 | 9 | #8,319 |
| 2007 | 7 | #9,782 |
| 2006 | 14 | #5,777 |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 7 | #8,921 |
| 2003 | 6 | #9,574 |
Names like Cyprus
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Ares Luca Atlas Memphis Xander Atreus Silas Magnus Cairo Cyrus Thiago Maximus
Other spellings of Cyprus
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