Meaning and history
Cyril comes from the Greek name Κύριλλος (Kyrillos), which derives from κύριος (kyrios), meaning “lord,” a word often used in the Greek Bible for God or Jesus. The name was borne by several important saints, including Cyril of Jerusalem, a 4th-century bishop and Doctor of the Church; Cyril of Alexandria, a 5th-century theologian; and Cyril, a 9th-century Greek missionary to the Slavs who, with his brother Methodius, is credited with creating the Glagolitic alphabet to translate the Bible into Slavic. The Cyrillic alphabet, named after him, descends from Glagolitic. Cyril has been especially common in Eastern Europe and other regions where Orthodox Christianity is widespread, and it came into general use in England in the 19th century.
20062006: 47 births, rank #2,542
2007: 42 births, rank #2,811
2008: 48 births, rank #2,583
2009: 40 births, rank #2,946
2010: 46 births, rank #2,632
20112011: 41 births, rank #2,852
2012: 42 births, rank #2,811
2013: 44 births, rank #2,668
2014: 45 births, rank #2,661
2015: 42 births, rank #2,809
20162016: 42 births, rank #2,838
2017: 28 births, rank #3,781
2018: 61 births, rank #2,230
2019: 41 births, rank #2,943
2020: 41 births, rank #2,886
20212021: 50 births, rank #2,588
2022: 44 births, rank #2,873
2023: 36 births, rank #3,293
2024: 41 births, rank #3,001
20252025: 38 births, rank #3,128
Cyril moved from #957 to #971 for boys between 1965 and 1966. Its highest annual birth count came in 1916, with 328 births.