Cisco
#9,895 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Cisco has been given to 836 babies in the U.S. since 1924. In 2025 it ranked #9,895 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1999, with 33 recorded.
Babies named Cisco, 2025
1 in 474,000
Cisco 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Cisco?
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
- #9,895
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 328,272 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Cisco 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 Cisco. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Ciscos were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Cisco was born before 1999 — so the typical Cisco is around 26 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 22.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 44.7%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 820
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 22.2% of all recorded uses (186).
Is Cisco 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
- −2,989
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −5,333
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −1,733
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.78×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 21.2%
- Peak was 1999 (33)
- Years since peak
- 26
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 36.7% average annual change
Spellings of Cisco
Cisco is not the most common spelling — Nico is, with 48.0% against Cisco's 1.9%.
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.
Where Cisco is used
Across 1910–2025, Cisco was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 88,045 across all states with data. It was least common in New Mexico (1 in 100,000).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in 100,000
- 2New Mexico1 in 100,000
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Cisco has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Cisco around the world
Where Cisco 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.
- France2021–2024#4,888in 2024
- South Australia2009–2010#754in 2010
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Cisco by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Cisco
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Cisco
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.