Cyra
Cyra was given to 64 girls in 2025, #2,699 among girls’ names; 931 Americans have been recorded with it since 1974 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Cyra by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Cyra?
#2,699 among girls’ names, 2025
Cyra rose from #6,076 in 2015 to #2,699 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 11.8 to 39.8 per million.
64 babies in 2025, the peak
Cyra peaked in 2025, when 64 girls were given it, #2,699 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 44 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 64 | #2,699 | 39.8 |
| 2024 | 44 | #3,525 | 27.2 |
| 2023 | 39 | #3,853 | 24.3 |
| 2022 | 47 | #3,376 | 28.7 |
| 2021 | 41 | #3,693 | 25.0 |
| 2020 | 30 | #4,473 | 18.6 |
| 2019 | 23 | #5,476 | 13.7 |
| 2018 | 34 | #4,169 | 20.0 |
| 2017 | 22 | #5,703 | 12.7 |
| 2016 | 37 | #4,014 | 20.9 |
Every recorded year (45)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 21 | #6,076 | 11.8 |
| 2014 | 22 | #5,836 | 12.3 |
| 2013 | 25 | #5,354 | 14.2 |
| 2012 | 22 | #5,949 | 12.5 |
| 2011 | 19 | #6,629 | 10.8 |
| 2010 | 21 | #6,231 | 11.8 |
| 2009 | 24 | #5,744 | 13.1 |
| 2008 | 30 | #4,922 | 15.9 |
| 2007 | 32 | #4,588 | 16.6 |
| 2006 | 27 | #5,116 | 14.2 |
| 2005 | 21 | #5,855 | 11.4 |
| 2004 | 19 | #6,284 | 10.3 |
| 2003 | 22 | #5,457 | 12.0 |
| 2002 | 21 | #5,492 | 11.7 |
| 2001 | 19 | #5,863 | 10.6 |
| 2000 | 14 | #7,254 | 7.7 |
| 1999 | 18 | #5,712 | 10.1 |
| 1998 | 16 | #6,127 | 9.1 |
| 1997 | 21 | #4,863 | 12.1 |
| 1996 | 13 | #6,800 | 7.4 |
| 1995 | 8 | #9,782 | 4.5 |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,205 | 6.7 |
| 1993 | 12 | #7,114 | 6.6 |
| 1992 | 8 | #9,673 | 4.3 |
| 1991 | 12 | #7,053 | 6.4 |
| 1990 | 9 | #8,634 | 4.7 |
| 1988 | 5 | #12,214 | 2.8 |
| 1987 | 7 | #8,975 | 4.0 |
| 1985 | 6 | #9,561 | 3.5 |
| 1982 | 12 | #5,615 | 7.1 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,326 | 3.6 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,229 | 3.7 |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,078 | 5.2 |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,451 | 4.8 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,047 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Cyra a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Cyra has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 45 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Cyra: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Cyra, and how old are they?
An estimated 921 Americans named Cyra and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 5 and 24. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 709 people named Cyra (700 women and girls, 9 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 666 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% above that prediction.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 133,289 babies since 1880, Cyra is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 64 of their 1,478 babies (4.3%), the fourth most given that year.
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 Cyra
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 Cyra and names like it
- Compare Cyra and KiraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Cyra.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Cyra alive today were born 2013-2025.
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