Cyan
A boys’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 23 babies a year in the US.
Cyan by the numbers
In 2025, 3 babies in England and Wales were named Cyan. In the US, 23 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
It is used at about the same rate on both sides of the Atlantic.
Its American peak was 98 babies in 1998, so it is a 1990s name that has since fallen a long way.
What we can tell you about Cyan
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Cyan. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Cianancient one; enduring one126 in England and Wales (2025)
- Cansoul or spirit6 in England and Wales (2025)
- Chancommon surname; often means facilitator or mediator11 in the US (2017)
- Cynanchief or leader8 in England and Wales (2025)
- Cuanwise; a form of Cumhal5 in England and Wales (2025)
- Cylan8 in the US (2017)
Sounds like Cyan
Names that are said the same way as Cyan, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
Names about as common as Cyan
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