Cyprus

loc · Latin script

Meaning: Mediterranean island

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Cyprus is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom.

rarermore common
  • ATAustria
  • AUAustralia
  • GBUnited Kingdom

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United Kingdom (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Sources
69 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Mediterranean island

Sources 1

  • Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

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

Where Cyprus is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
GB United Kingdom—listedCyprus25
US United States—163Cyprus69
AU Australia—1Cyprus7
AT Austria——Cyprus2
CA Canada—2Cyprus12

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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender. 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)

Cyprus is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Greek given name12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Cyprus, United Kingdom, United States, Greece

    Languages: Greek, English, German

    Also written Kypros, Κυπρος, Κύπρος, Cypros, Kýpros

  • Norwegian name9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Norway

    Also written Kypros, Cypern

  • Swahili surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India

    Also written Shipure

  • French surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States

    Also written Chipre

  • Indonesian given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Malaysia

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Siprus

24 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)

Cyprus is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, A woman from Cyprus

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  • In Malay, Cyprus (an island and country in the Mediterranean Sea, normally considered politically part of Southeast Europe but geographically part of Western Asia).

    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.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 11 sources across 5 countries.

Official registers attesting Cyprus
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

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 Cyprus mean, and where does it come from?
Mediterranean island Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
In which country does Cyprus have the most bearers?
Cyprus is most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom, where it is most often spelled cyprus.

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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, “Cyprus”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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