Cypress
Cypress is given to both girls and boys: 74 girls and 110 boys were given it in 2025 (#2,416 among girls’ names and #1,554 among boys’, #2,334 among all names counting both); 2,237 Americans have been recorded with it since 1978 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,220 Americans named Cypress and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 7 years old and half are between 3 and 14.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Cypress by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Cypress?
#1,554 among boys’ names, 2025
Cypress rose from #2,728 in 2015 to #1,554 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 23.0 to 64.4 per million.
207 babies in 2024, the peak
Cypress peaked in 2024, when 207 babies were given it (132 boys, #1,411 among boys’ names). The 184 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 89% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 74 | #2,416 | 110 | #1,554 |
| 2024 | 75 | #2,418 | 132 | #1,411 |
| 2023 | 71 | #2,500 | 113 | #1,550 |
| 2022 | 60 | #2,828 | 96 | #1,739 |
| 2021 | 73 | #2,445 | 101 | #1,648 |
| 2020 | 58 | #2,828 | 68 | #2,074 |
| 2019 | 62 | #2,735 | 69 | #2,092 |
| 2018 | 43 | #3,573 | 60 | #2,268 |
| 2017 | 36 | #4,084 | 36 | #3,201 |
| 2016 | 43 | #3,600 | 66 | #2,117 |
Every recorded year (34)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 41 | #3,715 | 44 | #2,728 |
| 2014 | 29 | #4,799 | 26 | #3,923 |
| 2013 | 41 | #3,723 | 25 | #3,987 |
| 2012 | 22 | #5,948 | 20 | #4,721 |
| 2011 | 25 | #5,405 | 27 | #3,813 |
| 2010 | 21 | #6,230 | 15 | #5,791 |
| 2009 | 17 | #7,412 | 25 | #4,056 |
| 2008 | 24 | #5,802 | 20 | #4,748 |
| 2007 | 17 | #7,465 | 12 | #6,704 |
| 2006 | 18 | #6,926 | 18 | #4,900 |
| 2005 | 19 | #6,330 | 9 | #7,755 |
| 2004 | 16 | #7,154 | 8 | #8,268 |
| 2003 | 18 | #6,366 | 12 | #5,937 |
| 2002 | 10 | #9,656 | 13 | #5,456 |
| 2001 | 14 | #7,402 | 18 | #4,326 |
| 2000 | 14 | #7,253 | 11 | #5,980 |
| 1999 | 17 | #5,966 | 9 | #6,633 |
| 1998 | 16 | #6,126 | 6 | #8,678 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,184 | under 5 | |
| 1996 | 16 | #5,835 | under 5 | |
| 1995 | 18 | #5,260 | 8 | #6,496 |
| 1994 | 19 | #5,063 | 7 | #7,092 |
| 1993 | 5 | #13,949 | 7 | #6,952 |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,072 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Cypress a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,237 Americans recorded as Cypress, 47% are girls and 53% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Cypress: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Cypress, and how old are they?
2,220 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,237 Americans ever recorded as Cypress. The median Cypress alive today is 7 years old; half are between 3 and 14.
The 2020 Census counted 1,179 people named Cypress (631 women and girls, 548 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,228 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 5 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 78 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 494 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,640 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Cypress born?
The states with the most babies named Cypress are Florida, Texas and California, with 55% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 28 | #1,380 | 1.4× |
| Texas | 17 | #1,679 | 0.5× |
| California | 9 | #1,717 | 0.7× |
| Louisiana | 9 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Missouri | 8 | #662 | 0.3× |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,176 | 0.3× |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,243 | 0.2× |
| Alabama | 6 | #699 | 0.3× |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,065 | 0.1× |
| Wisconsin | 5 | #807 | 0.1× |
Where Cypress is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Cypress is most over-represented in Florida: since 1978 it was given 1.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Cypress with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 2,539 babies since 1880, Cypress is the most given (88% of them). In 2025 it was given to 184 of their 215 babies (86%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Cypress
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Cypress and names like it
- Compare Cypress and CyprusBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sCypress peaked in 2024.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Cypress since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Cypress.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Cypress alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with CMost given first.