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Ciprian

Boys' name

English equivalent of Cyprian

Ciprian has been given to 6 babies in the U.S. since 1978. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1978, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Ciprian, 1978

1 in 529,000

Ciprian over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ciprian: meaning, origin, and history

English equivalent of Cyprian

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ciprian means

Ciprian is a English equivalent of Cyprian.

Origin, language, and formation

Ciprian is used in Occitan and Romanian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Cyprian.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6 boys were recorded with the name Ciprian between 1978 and 1978. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1978; its best national rank was #5,167 in 1978.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Ciprian?

Ciprian had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1978, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1978
1 in 529,000
6 of 3,173,639 births
Among boys only
1 in 274,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1978
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
366,634 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ciprian sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1978 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 366,634 children born in 1978 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ciprian. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ciprians were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ciprian was born before 1978 — so the typical Ciprian is around 47 today.

Median birth year
1978
About 47 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
6
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (6).

Is Ciprian 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1978 (6)
Years since peak
47
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#5,167
1978

Spellings of Ciprian

Ciprian is not the most common spelling — Cillian is, with 48.0% against Ciprian's 0.07%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Ciprian around the world

Where Ciprian 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.

  • England & Wales
    2017–2022
    #4,002
    in 2022
  • France
    2009–2025
    #6,392
    in 2025

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Ciprian by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#5,167
1978
Peak year
1978
6 that year
First recorded
1978
Last recorded
1978
All-time count
6
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Ciprian

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Ciprian

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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