Syrus
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Alternative form of Syros (“Greek island”)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/sɪɹəs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Syrus is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 241K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 2M
- SESweden1 in 2M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 13 (measured from records)
- 1 in 241K (inferred from the name graph)
1,382 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Alternative form of Syros (“Greek island”).
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Syrus 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 1,382 | 1 in 241K | 1.4K | Syrus | 13 |
| SE Sweden | 5 | 1 in 2M | 5 | — | 1 |
| DK Denmark | 3 | 1 in 2M | 3 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 3 | 1 in 13M | 3 | — | — |
| CR Costa Rica | 1 | 1 in 5.1M | 1 | — | — |
1,382 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)
Syrus 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, Syrian
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Syrus Marcus Wareb. 1977CACanadian artist and activist
- Syrus Cluniacensisauthor
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 30 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 201 | #96,965 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 198 | #92,719 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 160 | #103,706 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
- 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 Syrus mean, and where does it come from?
- Alternative form of Syros (“Greek island”). Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Syrus?
- A machine transcription gives /sɪɹəs/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Syrus a male or female name?
- Syrus 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.
- In which country does Syrus have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.4 thousand people named Syrus, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled syrus.
- Where is Syrus most common?
- Syrus is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 241 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Syrus?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,382 people named Syrus in 2020, about 1 in 241 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Syrus?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/syrusThe 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, “Syrus”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.