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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Cyril

Recorded for both sexesSilent Generation

2025 rank

#3,143

down −138 places

2025 births

38

down −3 births

All-time births

12,034

0% of them in 2025

More common than

98%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1916
328 births
Best rank
#263
in 1902
First recorded
1880
#941 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1943
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
143 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 1916328#283Peak
  2. 1921328#323
  3. 1918312#322
  4. 1917307#302
  5. 1919304#320

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #263 in 1902 · peak births 328 in 1916

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 99% boys■ 1% girls

12,034 boys · 97 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Cyril has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.