Chirill
Only 46 men in Poland carry this spelling, so most people here have never met one. It's a rare form of Cyril, from the Greek for "lordly, masterful".
Chirill Pronunciation
Chirill is pronounced KHEE-reell (/ˈxirill/).
What Chirill means
Where Chirill comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Chirill grows from Greek soil. It is a form of the name behind Saint Cyril, and the Greek Kyrillos gives it its shape. That word traces back to kyrios, meaning lord or master. So the short meaning reads as lordly, masterful.
The Greek kyrios named the one who held authority, the head of a house or the master of a room. A child called Chirill inherits that old title with no land to go with it. The meaning lives in the sound alone.
On a Polish school register, Chirill stands a little apart from the local Cyryl. The spelling with the double l and the h keeps a foreign edge. A teacher reading the list pauses on it. That pause is part of the name.
Cyril and Methodius carried this name into Slavic history as the brothers who shaped an alphabet. Chirill is a cousin of that name, one letter off, still holding kyrios inside it.
How many people are named Chirill
1 in 464048 men in Poland is named Chirill. 46 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #5601 among male names.