Cypher
#5,654 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Cypher has been given to 187 babies in the U.S. since 2011. In 2025 it ranked #5,654 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 27 recorded.
Babies named Cypher, 2025
1 in 207,000
Cypher 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Cypher?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 207,000
- 16 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 107,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #5,654
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 143,620 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Cypher 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 143,620 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Cypher. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Cyphers were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Cypher was born before 2021 — so the typical Cypher is around 4 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 59.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 187
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 59.9% of all recorded uses (112).
Is Cypher 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
- −378
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +1,970
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +6,798
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 3.20×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 59.3%
- Peak was 2022 (27)
- Years since peak
- 3
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 35.1% average annual change
Spellings of Cypher
Cypher is not the most common spelling — Cyler is, with 77.8% against Cypher's 22.2%.
- Cyler77.8%655
- Cypher22.2%187
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.
Cypher around the world
Where Cypher 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.
- Canada2024–2024#3,231in 2024
- South Australia2007–2007#680in 2007
Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Cypher by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Cypher
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Cypher
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.