Cyrano

Boys' name

Meaning not yet documented

Cyrano has been given to 14 babies in the U.S. since 1971. 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 1998, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Cyrano, 1998

1 in 460,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

How common is Cyrano?

Cyrano had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1998, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1998
1 in 460,000
8 of 3,677,189 births
Among boys only
1 in 239,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1998
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
318,605 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Cyrano 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 1998 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 318,605 children born in 1998 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Cyrano. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Cyranos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Cyrano was born before 1998 — so the typical Cyrano is around 27 today.

Median birth year
1998
About 27 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
57.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
57.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
14
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 57.1% of all recorded uses (8).

Is Cyrano 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1998 (8)
Years since peak
27
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#4,497
1971

Spellings of Cyrano

Cyrano is not the most common spelling — Kyran is, with 46.0% against Cyrano's 0.20%.

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.

Cyrano around the world

Where Cyrano 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.

  • France
    1910–2006
    #4,336
    in 2006
  • South Australia
    2008–2008
    #726
    in 2008

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.

Cyrano 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
#4,497
1971
Peak year
1998
8 that year
First recorded
1971
Last recorded
1998
All-time count
14
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Cyrano

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

Sibling names for Cyrano

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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