Cirene
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/siɾẽ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Cirene is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 58K(measured from records)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 46Kas Cyrene
- USUnited States1 in 1.1Mas Cyrene
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Cirene itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 140 (measured from records)
- 1 in 58K (inferred from the name graph)
3,626 people, 2022
Highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Cyrene in PH Philippines, US United States, ID Indonesia 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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Cirene 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 3,626 | 1 in 58K | 4.3K | Cirene | 55 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 84K | — | Cyrene | 7 |
| PH Philippines | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 46K | — | Cyrene | 50 |
| KE Kenya | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 173K | — | Cyrene | 6 |
| US United States | 302as Cyrene | 1 in 1.1M | 282 | Cyrene | 140 |
| SE Sweden | 70as Cyrene | 1 in 146K | 70 | — | 3 |
| GY Guyana | 8as Cyrene | 1 in 94K | 8 | Cyrene | 1 |
3,626 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Cirene 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 Catalan, Cyrene (an ancient city in North Africa, in modern Libya)
as a wordkaikki.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)
Attested in 16 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 4.3K | #3,699 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 4.3K | #1,662 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 3.6K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 3.6K | #3,418 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 3.6K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1980 | 3.3K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1970 | 2.7K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1960 | 1.7K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1960 | 994 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1950 | 887 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1950 | 778 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1970 | 649 | — |
Reference works 1
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
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
- How do you pronounce Cirene?
- A machine transcription gives /siɾẽ/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- Is Cirene a male or female name?
- Cirene 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 Cirene 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, where it is most often spelled cirene.
- Where is Cirene most common?
- Cirene is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 58 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Cirene?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 3,626 people named Cirene in 2022, about 1 in 58 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Cirene?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cireneThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Cirene”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.