# Kirill (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/kirill/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | Greek |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 495 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 495 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 186, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

From Russian Кири́лл (Kiríll), from Ancient Greek Κύριλλος (Kúrillos). Doublet of Cyril.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 16 | 5,569 |
| 2012 | 33 | 3,335 |
| 2013 | 31 | 3,458 |
| 2014 | 38 | 3,016 |
| 2015 | 30 | 3,644 |
| 2016 | 25 | 4,153 |
| 2017 | 35 | 3,285 |
| 2018 | 33 | 3,420 |
| 2019 | 18 | 5,264 |
| 2020 | 16 | 5,589 |
| 2021 | 16 | 5,678 |
| 2022 | 8 | 9,470 |
| 2023 | 10 | 8,019 |
| 2024 | 8 | 9,474 |
| 2025 | 20 | 4,962 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 7 | 2,629 |
| 2011 | 10 | 2,039 |
| 2012 | 19 | 1,313 |
| 2013 | 17 | 1,404 |
| 2014 | 9 | 2,248 |
| 2015 | 22 | 1,186 |
| 2016 | 15 | 1,627 |
| 2017 | 14 | 1,703 |
| 2018 | 16 | 1,533 |
| 2019 | 6 | 3,013 |
| 2020 | 4 | 3,848 |
| 2021 | 6 | 3,017 |
| 2022 | 6 | 3,048 |
| 2023 | 5 | 3,523 |
| 2024 | 6 | 3,254 |

## In other languages

- Arabic: كِيرِيل
- Armenian: Կիրիլ
- Bulgarian: Кири́л
- Chinese: 基里爾
- Georgian: კირილე, კირილი
- Greek: Κύριλλος
- Hebrew: קיריל
- Japanese: キリル
- Korean: 키릴
- Latvian: Kirils
- Lithuanian: Kirilas
- Polish: Cyryl
- Russian: Кири́лл
- Swedish: Kirill
- Ukrainian: Кири́ло

## People named Kirill

- Kirill Käro, Estonian-Russian actor (born 1975)
- Kirill Dmitriev, CEO of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF)
- Kirill Kaplenko, Belarus-born Russian footballer
- Kirill Stupak, Belarusian chess player
- Kirill Polukhin, actor
- Kirill Shamalov, a Russian businessman, the ex-husband of Katerina Tikhonova
- Kirill Kirilenko, association football player
- Kirill Premudrov, Belarusian footballer
- Kirill Starkov, Danish ice hockey player
- Saint Cyril the Philosopher, Christian missionary to the Slavs (9th c.)
- Cyril of Turaw, Belarusian and Ukrainian saint
- Kiril Despodov, Bulgarian footballer

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.