Given name & surname · also Latin
Ciriaco
“a lord”
Ciriaco is used as a given name and a surname. One Greek interpretation is “a lord.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Greek interpretation is “a lord.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Latin.
How it developed
From Latin Cyriacus, from Koine Greek Κυριακός.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1923. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Ciriaco through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 57
- 57 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1933
- 8 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 5 in 1994. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 8 in 1933. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 611 as a first name in 2020; 880 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.
Ciriaco’s family of names
In Italian usage, Ciriaco has a related form in CHIRCO. In Italian usage, Ciriaco has a related form in CHIRICO. In Spanish usage, Ciriaco has a conventional equivalent in the English form CYRIAC.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 3
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 8
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
See also 1
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Ciriaco
- Ciriaco SforzaSwiss footballerborn 1970
- Ciriaco ErrastiSpanish footballer (1904-1984)
- Ciriaco María Sancha y HervásSpanish author (1833-1909)
- Judas CyriacusPatron saint of Ancona350–363
- Ciriaco CanoSpanish association football playerborn 1948
- Ciriaco Benavente MateosSpanish bishopborn 1943
- Ciriaco RocciCatholic cardinal1581–1651
- Ciriaco Morón ArroyoBelgian Spanish academicborn 1935
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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