# Kyriakos (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/kyriakos/  
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 | 162 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 162 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 32, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

Chiefly in transliteration of Ancient Greek and Modern Greek Κυριακός (Kyriakós) and their cognates in non-Romance languages.

## 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1984 | 5 | 6,896 |
| 1985 | 5 | 7,121 |
| 1986 | 5 | 7,335 |
| 1988 | 6 | 6,900 |
| 1989 | 5 | 8,654 |
| 1992 | 7 | 7,094 |
| 1994 | 5 | 9,651 |
| 1997 | 6 | 8,785 |
| 2001 | 5 | 11,602 |
| 2004 | 6 | 10,778 |
| 2006 | 5 | 13,177 |
| 2016 | 7 | 10,286 |
| 2018 | 7 | 10,282 |
| 2023 | 6 | 11,662 |
| 2025 | 5 | 13,102 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 4 | 2,857 |
| 2005 | 5 | 2,754 |
| 2015 | 3 | 4,747 |
| 2016 | 5 | 3,478 |
| 2019 | 3 | 4,702 |
| 2020 | 5 | 3,334 |
| 2021 | 3 | 4,789 |
| 2023 | 4 | 4,107 |

## People named Kyriakos

- Kyriakos Ioannou, Cypriot athletics competitor
- Kyriakos Costa Nicolaou, Cypriot-American chemist
- Kyriakos Triantaphyllides, Cypriot politician

## 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.