Cyrus
Greek in form, though the meaning runs back to Persian: "throne". Just 35 men in Poland carry it, so most people here will go a lifetime without meeting one.
Cyrus Pronunciation
Cyrus is pronounced TSIH-roos (/ˈt͡sɨrus/).
What Cyrus means
Where Cyrus comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Cyrus came into English from the Greek Kyros, the name Greek writers used for the Old Persian Kūruš. Herodotus and Xenophon spelled it that way, and their spelling is the one English kept. The root is Persian, but the road ran through Greek.
The most documented bearer is Cyrus the Great, who founded the Achaemenid Empire in the sixth century BC. He is the reason two Persian senses still cling to the name: throne, and, in a second reading, young. The sense of throne is the one English speakers usually meet first, since it suits a king. The other reading sits quietly behind it.
English is where the name settled. Its home is English now. On a Polish class register it would read as foreign, a Greek shape over a Persian root, its meaning written out as tron.
When Cyrus celebrates name day
Cyrus appears 2 times in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 31 January.
Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.
How many people are named Cyrus
1 in 609891 men in Poland is named Cyrus. 35 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #6697 among male names.
Cyrus as a middle name
Cyrus is a first name for 35 men in Poland and a middle name for another 37, a 49/51 split, almost evenly. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1320th, between Brendan (37) and César (37).
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#1318 Bożysław37
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#1319 Brendan37
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#1320 Cyrus37
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#1321 César37
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#1322 Daniele37