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Kiril

#13,066 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Cyril

Kiril has been given to 163 babies in the U.S. since 1978. In 2025 it ranked #13,066 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2010, with 15 recorded.

Babies named Kiril, 2025

1 in 663,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kiril: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Cyril

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kiril means

Kiril is a form of Cyril.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Kiril is used in Bulgarian and Macedonian.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈki.ɾiɫ/ for Kiril.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Kiril → Cyril. The family’s meaning is “lord, master”, recorded in English with the source elements kúrios.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Cyril.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 163 boys were recorded with the name Kiril between 1978 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 15 in 2010; its best national rank was #5,909 in 2010.

Over 10 years its rank fell, from #10,151 in 2015 to #13,066 in 2025.

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 Kiril?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#13,066
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kiril 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 2025 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kiril. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kirils were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kiril was born before 2010 — so the typical Kiril is around 15 today.

Median birth year
2010
About 15 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
52.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
89.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
163
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 52.8% of all recorded uses (86).

Is Kiril 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
−2,915
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.71×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
33.3%
Peak was 2010 (15)
Years since peak
15
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
40.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,909
2010

Spellings of Kiril

Kiril is not the most common spelling — Karl is, with 30.2% against Kiril's 0.05%.

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 Kiril is used

Across 1910–2025, Kiril was most concentrated in Washington — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 572,391 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Washington1 in —

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. Kiril has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Kiril around the world

Where Kiril 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
    2009–2025
    #5,137
    in 2025
  • France
    2009–2025
    #5,428
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    1953–1953
    #334
    in 1953

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Kiril by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#13,066
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#5,909
2010
Peak year
2010
15 that year
First recorded
1978
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
163
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Kiril

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

KireeKirenKirtanKiroKirinKirynKironKirillKirubelKiramKireKirkeKirtisKiravKirianMerilKirosDarilKiranKirstenJubrilKirtusKirklinDjibril

Sibling names for Kiril

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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