Given name & surname
Ciprian
“a man from Cyprus”
Ciprian is a variant of Cipriano. One Spanish interpretation is “a man from Cyprus.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Ciprian is a variant of Cipriano. One Spanish interpretation is “a man from Cyprus.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Ciprian is a variant of Cipriano. An origin associated with Cipriano is Latin.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1978. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Ciprian through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 6
- 6 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1978
- 6 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 6 in 1978. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 520 as a first name in 2020; 1,125 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Ciprian’s family of names
Ciprian has a related form in Cipriano.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
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 5
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Ciprian
- Ciprian MaricaRomanian association football playerborn 1985
- Ciprian PorumbescuRomanian composer (1853-1883)
- Ciprian TudosăRomanian rowerborn 1997
- Ciprian DeacRomanian former footballer (born 1986)
- Ciprian ManolescuRomanian-American mathematicianborn 1978
- Ciprian FoiasRomanian mathematician (1933–2020)
- Ciprian VasilacheRomanian footballerborn 1983
- Ciprian TănasăRomanian footballerborn 1981
- Çiprian NikaAlbanian Franciscan, teacher, and publicist1900–1948
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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