Kirill
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Russian: "lord, master"
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/cɪɹɪl/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kirill is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country, where it is the 58th most common given name.
- ESSpain1 in 62K(measured from records)
- RURussia≈1 in 219as Кирилл
- BYBelarus≈1 in 288as Кирилл
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 Kirill 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.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- #238 (measured from records)
- 6 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 399 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 978 (inferred from the name graph)
≈650,000 named Кирилл, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Estonia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Кирилл in RU Russia, BY Belarus, CN China, Cyril in FR France, NG Nigeria, Kiril in BG Bulgaria and Кирил in MK North Macedonia.
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)
"lord, master."
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
How Kirill is read(measured from records)
Kirill is one spelling over 2 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.
- Russian74%
"lord, master."
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
de kyrios, maître, souverain ou d'origine persane : "soleil".
as a nameRussian Names
- English7.3%
A transliteration of the Russian male given name Кири́лл (Kiríll).
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kirill 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | #58 | ≈650,000 est. | ≈1 in 219 | #33 | Кирилл | 268 |
| FR France | #158 | ≈85,000 est. | ≈1 in 801 | 88K | Cyril | 399 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈58,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.7K | — | Cyril | 37 |
| CN China | — | ≈51,000 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Кирилл | 15 |
| BY Belarus | #39 | ≈33,000 est. | ≈1 in 288 | 20 | Кирилл | 66 |
| BG Bulgaria | #29 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 554 | — | Kiril | 156 |
| MK North Macedonia | #79 | 3,638as Кирил | 1 in 584 | 3.6K | Кирил | 35 |
| EE Estonia | #171 | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 978 | 2.3K | Kirill | 60 |
| ES Spain | — | 806 | 1 in 62K | 806 | Kirill | 57 |
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: the russian-names-pereverzeva-2011 register; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Universal Dependencies Belarusian-HSE Corpus — Person Names (UD_Belarusian-HSE); State Statistical Office — living population names; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Statistics Estonia — Ees- ja perekonnanimed (Population Register). 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)
Kirill is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Uzbek, the Cyrillic (alphabet)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In crh, Cyrillic
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Russian form of CYRIL .
as a word
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)
- Cyril of Alexandriab. 376EGPatriarchate of Alexandria from 412 to 444
- Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich of Russiab. 1876RUHead of the House of Romanov (1924-1938)
- Kirill Moskalenkob. 1902UASoviet marshal (1902–1985)
- Cyril Toumanoffb. 1913USRussian-born Georgian-American historian and genealogist (1913-1997)
- Kirill Kondrashinb. 1914RURussian conductor (1914–1981)
- Konstantin Simonovb. 1915RUnot in their usual nameSoviet writer, poet, playwright and wartime correspondent (1915–1979)
- Kirill Lavrovb. 1925RUSoviet and Russian actor (1925-2007)
- Kirill Petrenkob. 1972ATRussian conductor
- Kirill Kärob. 1975EEEstonian-Russian actor (born 1975)
- Kirill Nababkinb. 1986RURussian football player, defender
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).
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 55 sources across 29 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — Ees- ja perekonnanimed (Population Register) | — | 2.3K | #70 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 2.3K | #70 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 806 | #3,314 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 437 | #2,316 |
| EE Estonia | Siseministeerium — population register name list 2023 | 2023 | — | — |
| RU Russia | Russian Names (Pereverzeva, 2011) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 Kirill mean, and where does it come from?
- "lord, master." Recorded by A Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996).
- How do you pronounce Kirill?
- A machine transcription gives /cɪɹɪl/ (IPA) for Russian.
- Is Kirill a male or female name?
- Kirill is a male 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.
- What are other forms of the name Kirill?
- In the etymology graph, Cyril, Cyrille and Ciriaco are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Kirill have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 646 thousand people named Кирилл in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Kirill?
- In Spain, the national register counted 806 people named Kirill, about 1 in 62 thousand residents.
- How common is Kirill compared with other names?
- In Russia, Kirill is the 58th most common given name of 472,143 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kirillThe 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, “Kirill” — the 58th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.