Cy — #2335 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Cy

The Social Security Administration has registered 3,846 babies named Cy between 1902 and 2024, spanning 123 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Cy currently holds the #2335 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2010, when 117 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Cy performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 892 births during that ten-year window. Across the 13 decades of recorded activity, Cy shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 299 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Cy in 20 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Cy in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 3,846 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.