Kirill
Kirill was given to 20 boys in 2025, #4,961 among boys’ names; 495 Americans have been recorded with it since 1997 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kirill by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Kirill mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Kirill is “a transliteration of the Russian male given name Кири́лл (Kiríll).”
From Russian Кири́лл (Kiríll), from Ancient Greek Κύριλλος (Kúrillos). Doublet of Cyril.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Kirill?
#4,961 among boys’ names, 2025
Kirill fell from #3,643 in 2015 to #4,961 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 15.7 to 11.7 per million.
38 babies in 2014, the peak
Kirill peaked in 2014, when 38 boys were given it, #3,014 among boys’ names. The 20 births of 2025 are 53% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 20 | #4,961 | 11.7 |
| 2024 | 8 | #9,469 | 4.6 |
| 2023 | 10 | #8,014 | 5.8 |
| 2022 | 8 | #9,465 | 4.6 |
| 2021 | 16 | #5,673 | 9.1 |
| 2020 | 16 | #5,585 | 9.3 |
| 2019 | 18 | #5,260 | 10.0 |
| 2018 | 33 | #3,416 | 18.2 |
| 2017 | 35 | #3,283 | 18.9 |
| 2016 | 25 | #4,152 | 13.2 |
Every recorded year (27)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 30 | #3,643 | 15.7 |
| 2014 | 38 | #3,014 | 19.8 |
| 2013 | 31 | #3,456 | 16.4 |
| 2012 | 33 | #3,332 | 17.4 |
| 2011 | 16 | #5,564 | 8.4 |
| 2010 | 24 | #4,179 | 12.5 |
| 2009 | 21 | #4,674 | 10.6 |
| 2008 | 19 | #4,981 | 9.3 |
| 2007 | 24 | #4,191 | 11.6 |
| 2006 | 13 | #6,300 | 6.3 |
| 2005 | 11 | #6,892 | 5.5 |
| 2004 | 8 | #8,580 | 4.0 |
| 2003 | 12 | #6,078 | 6.1 |
| 2002 | 6 | #10,108 | 3.1 |
| 2001 | 9 | #7,229 | 4.6 |
| 2000 | 6 | #9,769 | 3.1 |
| 1997 | 5 | #10,105 | 2.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kirill a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kirill has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 27 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kirill: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kirill, and how old are they?
An estimated 490 Americans named Kirill and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 8 and 17. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,914 people named Kirill (3 women and girls, 1,911 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 417 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4.6 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 3 names spelled alike, given to 1,588 babies since 1880, Kirill is the second most given (31% of them). In 2025 it was given to 20 of their 93 babies (22%), again the second 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 Kirill
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 Kirill and names like it
- Compare Kirill and KyrellBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sKirill peaked in 2014.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kirill since 1910.
- The top names of 2014The year the most babies were named Kirill.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Kirill alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.