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Sirus

Boy · SY-rus · Persian

Sirus is a boys' name of Persian origin. In 2025 it ranked 5,207th for boys in the US (18 babies).

What does Sirus mean?

Persian: variant of Cyrus, or of the star name Sirius

Cyrus the Great founded the Persian Achaemenid Empire in the 6th century BC.

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SY-rus

Is Sirus a girl's or a boy's name?

Sirus is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 18 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.

How popular is Sirus in the US?

Rank in 2025
#5,207among boys
Babies in 2025
18about 1 in 95,000 boys
Five-year trend
Steadydown 11% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 18 boys in the US were named Sirus, making it the 5,207th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,422nd. Its busiest year was 2020, with 22 boys. It first appears in the records in 1995.

Half of all the boys named Sirus in the US since 1880 were born between 2007 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 1,422 boys in the US were given Sirus or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #264, up from #5,207 for this spelling alone.

1995Busiest: 22 in 20202025
Sirus in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
202518#5,207
202413#6,464
202320#4,882
202214#6,141
202115#5,771
202022#4,422
201919#4,947
201816#5,536
201720#4,742
201611#7,152
20159#8,035
201412#6,627
201316#5,400
201211#7,044
20119#8,072
201011#7,081
200914#6,091
200815#5,762
20079#8,169
200615#5,521
200517#4,819
200419#4,416
200312#5,870
20029#7,048
20017#8,332
20000–
19990–
19980–
19970–
19960–
19955#8,861

Names like Sirus

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

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