Cyrene

Spellings & scripts●(measured from records)

Locally spelled Cirene in BR Brazil.

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)

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

How Cyrene is read●(measured from records)

Cyrene is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

• English57%

  nymph loved by Apollc <; ancient

  as a name·Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  Woman from Cyrene, an ancient Greek colony in North Africa.

  as a name·Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

  A Thessalian princess and huntress demigod, companion of Artemis and lover of Apollo.

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  African city

  as a name·Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

• Spanish16%

  No dictionary in our sources glosses Cyrene in Spanish.

• Portuguese9.7%

  Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of Cirene.

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• French5.5%

  No dictionary in our sources glosses Cyrene in French.

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

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

Cyrene is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• French given name2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Philippines, United States, France, Canada

  Also written Cyrène

• a separate name2 spellings in the group

  Also written Cyrène

• Swedish given name8 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Sweden, Denmark

  Languages: Swedish, Danish

  Also written Cyréne, Kyrene

30 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)

Cyrene 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 Latin, Cyrene (a city in Libya, now Kuren)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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.

How to address them○(machine-generated)

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence●(measured from records)

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

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Cyrene mean, and where does it come from?

nymph loved by Apollc <; ancient Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.

How do you pronounce Cyrene?

A machine transcription gives /saɪɹiːni/ (IPA) for English.

Is Cyrene a male or female name?

Cyrene is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

In which country does Cyrene have the most bearers?

In Brazil, the national register counted about 3.6 thousand people named Cirene, more than in any other country we hold.

How common is the name Cyrene?

In the United States, the national register counted 302 people named Cyrene in 2020, about 1 in 1.1 million residents.