Ciro
From Latin, the name means "sun", or like the sun. In Poland it stays genuinely rare: only about 80 men carry it, and most Poles have never met one.
Ciro Pronunciation
Ciro is pronounced CHEE-ro (/ˈt͡ɕirɔ/).
What Ciro means
Where Ciro comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Ciro comes into Italian from Latin, and the meaning people attach to it is "sun," a person bright as the sun. The Latin form found its firmest home in the south of Italy, most of all in Naples.
There the name answers to a saint. San Ciro was a physician from Alexandria, martyred under Diocletian for treating the poor. His relics rest today in the church of Gesù Nuovo in Naples, and Neapolitans keep him as protector of the sick. His feast falls on 31 January, so every boy called Ciro has a fixed date on the calendar.
The name has no diminutive or variant to stand in for it. It stays short, two syllables, Ciro. A child receives it whole. And the sense fixed to it, brought from the Latin through the Naples devotion, is still the plain one: sun, or someone like the sun.
How many people are named Ciro
1 in 257183 men in Poland is named Ciro. 83 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3882 among male names.
Ciro's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Ciro as a middle name
Ciro is a first name for 83 men in Poland and a middle name for another 8, a 91/9 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 3502nd, between Chimaobi (8) and Clifton (8).
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#3500 Cheng8
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#3501 Chimaobi8
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#3502 Ciro8
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#3503 Clifton8
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#3504 Cornell8