Cid
#9,893 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Cid has been given to 213 babies in the U.S. since 1962. In 2025 it ranked #9,893 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1971, with 10 recorded.
Babies named Cid, 2025
1 in 474,000
Cid over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Cid?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 474,000
- 7 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 244,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #9,893
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 328,272 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Cid sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Cid. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Cids were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Cid was born before 2002 — so the typical Cid is around 23 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 24.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 51.6%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 213
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 24.9% of all recorded uses (53).
Is Cid rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +2,504
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −1,734
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.78×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 70.0%
- Peak was 1971 (10)
- Years since peak
- 54
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 16.2% average annual change
Cid around the world
Where Cid ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- France1996–2013#6,088in 2013
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Cid by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Cid
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Cid
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.