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Кирил
“of the Lord”
Кирил (Kíril) is a masculine given name from Ancient Greek. It is used in Bulgarian and Macedonian.
Bulgarian and MacedonianWritten in Cyrillic script. In English: Cyril.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Кирил is Kiril written in Cyrillic. One Greek interpretation is “of the Lord.”
Explained through its name family
How it developed
From Ancient Greek Κύριλλος, built from Ancient Greek κῡ́ριος + -ιλλος.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Кирил’s family of names
In Macedonian usage, Кирил has a diminutive in Кире. In Serbo-Croatian usage, Кирил has a conventional equivalent in the English form Cyril. In Serbo-Croatian usage, Кирил has a conventional equivalent in the English form Kirill.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Кирил has relatives in 5 languages. Lines run from its Ancient Greek roots to each of them.
11 related names in 5 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 7
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 17
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Кирил
- Kiril PetkovBulgarian politician, economist and entrepreneurborn 1980
- Kiril MetkovBulgarian association football playerborn 1965
- Kiril LazarovMacedonian handball playerborn 1980
- Kiril IvkovBulgarian footballer1946–2025
- Kiril DojčinovskiMacedonian footballer (1943–2022)
- Kiril GeorgievBulgarian and Macedonian chess grandmasterborn 1965
- Kiril TerzievOlympic wrestlerborn 1983
- Kiril RakarovBulgarian footballer (1932-2006)
- Kiril KotevBulgarian footballerborn 1982
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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