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Spyros

Boys' name

Short form of Spyridon

Spyros has been given to 104 babies in the U.S. since 1964. 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 1972, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Spyros, 2000

1 in 756,000

Spyros over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Spyros: meaning, origin, and history

Short form of Spyridon

Greek

What Spyros means

Spyros is a short form of Spyridon.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Spyros is used in Greek.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈspi.ɾos/ for Spyros.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Spyros → Spyridon. The family’s meaning is “basket or spirit”, recorded in the naming reference for Spyridon.

Origin, language, and formation

Spyros is used in English. Its origins include Greek.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Spyridon.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 104 boys were recorded with the name Spyros between 1964 and 2000. Its highest annual count was 10 in 1972; its best national rank was #3,077 in 1968.

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 Spyros?

Spyros had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2000, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2000
1 in 756,000
5 of 3,778,496 births
Among boys only
1 in 393,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2000
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
523,812 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Spyros 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 2000 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 523,812 children born in 2000 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Spyros. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Spyross were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Spyros was born before 1975 — so the typical Spyros is around 50 today.

Median birth year
1975
About 50 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
40.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
47.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
104
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 40.4% of all recorded uses (42).

Is Spyros 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 1972 (10)
Years since peak
53
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,077
1968

Spellings of Spyros

Spyros is not the most common spelling — Syrus is, with 54.2% against Spyros's 2.7%.

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 Spyros is used

Across 1910–2025, Spyros was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,110,320 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 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. Spyros has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Spyros around the world

Where Spyros 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
    2024–2024
    #5,120
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1959–1994
    #531
    in 1994

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Spyros 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
—
Best rank ever
#3,077
1968
Peak year
1972
10 that year
First recorded
1964
Last recorded
2000
All-time count
104
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Spyros

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

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Sibling names for Spyros

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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