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Kourosh

Boys' name

Form of Cyrus

Kourosh has been given to 186 babies in the U.S. since 1984. 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 2006, with 12 recorded.

Babies named Kourosh, 2024

1 in 557,000

Kourosh over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05101518801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kourosh: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Cyrus

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kourosh means

Kourosh is a form of Cyrus.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Kourosh is used in Persian.

Another recorded pronunciation is /kuː.ˈɾoʃ/ for Kourosh.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Kourosh → Cyrus. The family’s proposed meaning is “young or humiliator (of the enemy)”, recorded in the naming reference for Cyrus.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Cyrus.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 186 boys were recorded with the name Kourosh between 1984 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 12 in 2006; its best national rank was #6,008 in 1984.

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.

How common is Kourosh?

Kourosh had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 557,000
6 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only
1 in 287,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
386,177 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kourosh 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 2024 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 386,177 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kourosh. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kouroshs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kourosh was born before 2005 — so the typical Kourosh is around 20 today.

Median birth year
2005
About 20 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
39.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
70.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
186
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Choose a decade

2000s — 39.8% of all recorded uses (74).

Is Kourosh 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 2006 (12)
Years since peak
19
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,008
1984

Where Kourosh is used

Across 1910–2025, Kourosh was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 622,597 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 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. Kourosh has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Kourosh around the world

Where Kourosh 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
    1997–2024
    #5,120
    in 2024
  • Canada
    2000–2020
    #2,283
    in 2020

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Kourosh 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
#6,008
1984
Peak year
2006
12 that year
First recorded
1984
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
186
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Kourosh

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

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Sibling names for Kourosh

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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