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Syrus

#1,820 in 2025Boys' name

A Syrian

Syrus has been given to 2,079 babies in the U.S. since 1982. In 2025 it ranked #1,820 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 122 recorded.

Babies named Syrus, 2025

1 in 37,700

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Syrus: meaning, origin, and history

A Syrian

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Syrus means

Syrus means “a Syrian”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,079 boys were recorded with the name Syrus between 1982 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 122 in 2022; its best national rank was #1,481 in 2023.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,646 in 2020 to #1,820 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,976 in 2015 to #1,820 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.

How common is Syrus?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 37,700
88 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 19,400
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,820
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
26,114 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Syrus 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 5001%

Put another way: gather 26,114 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Syrus. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Syruss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Syrus was born before 2014 — so the typical Syrus is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
35.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
90.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,079
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 35.7% of all recorded uses (743).

Is Syrus 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
−113
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−174
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+156
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.19×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
72.1%
Peak was 2022 (122)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
14.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,481
2023

Spellings of Syrus

Syrus is not the most common spelling — Cyrus is, with 50.8% against Syrus's 3.6%.

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 Syrus is used

Across 2016–2025, Syrus was most concentrated in Nebraska — about 1 in 16,667 boys, against 1 in 27,561 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in 100,000).

16 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Nebraska1 in 16,667
  2. 2Ohio1 in 16,667
  3. 3California1 in 20,000
  4. 4Nevada1 in 20,000
  5. 5Oklahoma1 in 20,000
  6. 6Texas1 in 20,000
  7. 7Indiana1 in 25,000
  8. 8Kansas1 in 25,000

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.

Syrus around the world

Where Syrus 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
    1997–2025
    #4,275
    in 2025
  • France
    2007–2007
    #4,909
    in 2007
  • Canada
    2002–2024
    #2,550
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2007–2011
    #784
    in 2011

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

Notable people named Syrus

People whose public names include Syrus, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Syrus by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,820
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 174
Best rank ever
#1,481
2023
Peak year
2022
122 that year
First recorded
1982
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,079
Count in 2025
88

Names similar to Syrus

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

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Names with a curve like Syrus

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Syrus, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Syrus

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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