Cyprus
A unisex name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 16 babies a year in the US.
Cyprus by the numbers
Cyprus was given to 16 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its best year in America so far is the most recent one on record, which means it was still climbing when the records end.
What we can tell you about Cyprus
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.
Names that come from Cyprus
Forms of Cyprus in other languages, names built from it, and names that mean a son or daughter of it. Not always the same sex.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Cyprus. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Cypresscypress tree71 in the US (2017)
Sounds like Cyprus
Names that are said the same way as Cyprus, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
- Cyprisof cyprus; an epithet of aphrodite5 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Cyprus
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