Cīrulis

surname · Latin script

Meaning: lark (bird)

Cīrulis is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Latvia than in any other country, where it is the 38th most common surname.

rarermore common
  • LVLatvia≈1 in 2.8K(inferred from the name graph)
  • EEEstonia≈1 in 351K
  • PLPoland1 in 7.7M

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Latvia (inferred from the name graph)

≈680 people, est.

Sources
38 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 2.8K (inferred from the name graph)

Latvia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Cirulis in US United States, GB United Kingdom, LT Lithuania and 2 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

lark (bird)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Cīrulis counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Cīrulis is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
LV Latvia#38≈680 est.≈1 in 2.8K—Cīrulis38
PL Poland—51 in 7.7M5——
EE Estonia—≈4 est.≈1 in 351KlistedCirulis2
US United States———listedCirulis35
GB United Kingdom————Cirulis20
LT Lithuania————Cirulis9
SE Sweden————Cirulis6

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Cīrulis is also recorded as 9 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Australia, Latvia, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Cirulis

  • Estonian surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Latvia

    Languages: Estonian, Finnish

    Also written Cirulis

  • Russian surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Latvia, Kazakhstan, Türkiye

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Цирулис, Cirulis

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Cirulis

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Cirulis

  • Serbian surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Latvia

    Also written Cirulis

  • Spanish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Latvia

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Cirulis

  • Czech surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia

    Also written Cirulis

  • French surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, France

    Also written Cirulis

4 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Cīrulis is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Latvian, Zvirbuļveidīgo putnu kārtas zvirbuļputnu jeb dziedātājputnu apakškārtas dzimta ("Alaudidae"), neliels dziedātājputns ar pelēki brūnu apspalvojumu, 18 ģintis, 82 sugas, Latvijā konstatētas 4 ģintis ("Alauda, Galerida, Lullula, Eremophila"), 4 sugas, kas ir gājputni

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

18801900192019401960Ansis Cīrulis, b. 1883Jānis Cīruli, b. 1910Gunārs Cīrulis, b. 1923Juris Cīrulis, b. 1955

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 4 sources across 2 countries.

Official registers attesting Cīrulis
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20265—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—5#194,760

Reference works 1

  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Cīrulis mean, and where does it come from?
lark (bird) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Cīrulis have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 678 people named Cīrulis in Latvia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cīrulis.
How common is the name Cīrulis?
In Poland, the national register counted 5 people named Cīrulis in 2026, about 1 in 7.7 million residents.
How common is Cīrulis compared with other names?
In Latvia, Cīrulis is the 38th most common surname of 60,294 surnames recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Cīrulis” — the 38th most common surname in Latvia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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