Kyrus
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- KY-rus
- Origin
- Persian
- US rank, 2025
- #10,690 for boys
Kyrus is a boys' name of Persian origin. In 2025 it ranked 10,690th for boys in the US (6 babies).
What does Kyrus mean?
Persian: spelling of Cyrus, from Old Persian Kurush via Greek Kyros
A spelling of Cyrus, after Cyrus the Great, founder of the Persian Achaemenid Empire in the sixth century BC.
Is Kyrus a girl's or a boy's name?
Kyrus is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 6 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Kyrus in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #10,690among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 6about 1 in 280,000 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, 6 boys in the US were named Kyrus, making it the 10,690th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,062nd. Its busiest year was 2022, with 13 boys. It first appears in the records in 1983.
2025 had fewer boys named Kyrus than any year since 2019.
Half of all the boys named Kyrus in the US since 1880 were born between 2011 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
Kyrus in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #10,690 |
| 2024 | 10 | #7,760 |
| 2023 | 9 | #8,250 |
| 2022 | 13 | #6,473 |
| 2021 | 9 | #8,161 |
| 2020 | 9 | #8,062 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 7 | #9,664 |
| 2017 | 5 | #12,241 |
| 2016 | 9 | #8,141 |
| 2015 | 7 | #9,562 |
| 2014 | 6 | #10,711 |
| 2013 | 6 | #10,722 |
| 2012 | 7 | #9,703 |
| 2011 | 10 | #7,495 |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 8 | #9,013 |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 5 | #10,660 |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 9 | #6,524 |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 0 | – |
| 1995 | 0 | – |
| 1994 | 0 | – |
| 1993 | 0 | – |
| 1992 | 0 | – |
| 1991 | 0 | – |
| 1990 | 0 | – |
| 1989 | 0 | – |
| 1988 | 0 | – |
| 1987 | 0 | – |
| 1986 | 0 | – |
| 1985 | 0 | – |
| 1984 | 0 | – |
| 1983 | 5 | #6,234 |
Names like Kyrus
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Kayden Kyaire Kian Callan Raiden Finnegan Declan Kyrie Cassian Ronan Deacon Kenai
Names related to Kyrus
More Persian names
Jasper Esther Jasmine Casper Yasmin Darius Zorawar Kiyan Rumi Yasmine Kasper Mahnoor Dario Arian Arman Armaan
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Kyrus: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/kyrus, updated 20 October 2026.