Cyrilla
Feminine · “lordly”
An alphabet is named after the man this name comes from, and he did not invent it. Cyril, a Greek missionary to the Slavs, devised a script called Glagolitic; his students, working after his death, produced a simpler one and named it for their teacher. Cyrillic is used by a quarter of a billion people, and its name is a memorial rather than a credit.
How old is the name Cyrilla?
Cyrilla first appears in US birth records in 1895 — 130 years ago. The typical Cyrilla alive today was born around 1927, making them about 98 years old. About 200 people named Cyrilla are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Cyrilla most popular?
Cyrilla peaked in 1895, reaching #1426 nationally. Today it ranks #13208, 11,782 places below that high. See the whole 1895 chart.
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Where it comes from
From kyrios to Cyrilla
The story of Cyrilla
Cyril and his brother Methodius were sent from Constantinople to Moravia in the ninth century and set about translating scripture into Slavic — which required an alphabet, because none existed. Cyril produced Glagolitic, a genuinely original script; the Cyrillic that carries his name came afterward, from his followers in Bulgaria, and is closer to Greek. Both brothers are honored as saints across the Orthodox and Catholic churches. The feminine Cyrilla appears in American records from the 1890s, arriving with Central European Catholic families, and it has always been rare here.
Meaning
lordly, of the lord
From the Greek kyrios, lord or master — the word used throughout the Greek New Testament for God and for Christ, and still used in Greek for an ordinary mister. Kyrillos is the adjective built on it, and Cyrilla is the Latin feminine, formed with the -illa ending Latin uses to make women's names from men's.
How the name formed
- kyrios
- Kyrillos
- Cyrillus
- Cyrilla
Related forms: Kyrillos · Kirill · Cyrila · Cyrylla · Cirilla
Pronouncing Cyrilla
sih-RILL-uh
Three syllables, stress in the middle, which the doubled l signals. The Greek and Slavic forms begin with a k sound rather than an s; English says the c soft before a y, which is why the name sounds so different from Kirill.
Nicknames for Cyrilla
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1895
- Most girls named
- 191726 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1426reached in 1895
- Change vs 2024
- −14.3%6 in 2025, from 7
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Cyrilla in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Kyrillos in Greek — related form
- Kirill in Russian — related form
- Cyrila in Czech — same name
- Cyrylla in Polish — same name
- Cirilla in Italian — same name
Cyrillas among us
people named Cyrilla are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 267,878 born in 2025 was named Cyrilla
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Cyrilla
- #13208
- Cyrilla on the 2025 chart
- #888
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Cyrilla went to 6 girls in 2025, but Cirilla is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 72, which makes it the 888th most-given girls’ name of the year — 12,320 places above the chart.
- Cirilla66
- Cyrilla6
About 1 girl in 22,323 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 267,878 for Cyrilla itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
Fashion outlook
Cyrilla sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Cyrilla beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Cyrilla in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- It has a documented ninth-century figure behind it whose work is still in daily use by millions.
- Cyra and Rilla are both usable and belong to different centuries.
- The meaning is one word long and easy to give.
- It is genuinely rare, so a child will not meet another.
- It belongs to an older American generation and carries that flavor.
- Cirilla, Cyrila and Cyrilla all appear in records, so the spelling has to be dictated.
- The initial sound is an s in English and a k everywhere the name is native, which surprises relatives abroad.
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Frequently asked
- How many Cyrillas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 200 people named Cyrilla are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Cyrilla?
- Cyrilla is one of 2 recorded spellings. Cirilla is the more common one — 66 births in 2025 against 6 for Cyrilla.
- How popular is the name Cyrilla in 2025?
- Cyrilla ranks #13208 among US girl names in 2025, with 6 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Cyrilla?
- About 1 in every 267,878 US girls born in 2025 was named Cyrilla — 6 in all.
- Will my child share the name Cyrilla with classmates?
- Cyrilla will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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