Given name & surname
Kiril
“of the Lord”
Kiril is used as a given name and a surname. One Greek interpretation is “of the Lord.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Greek interpretation is “of the Lord.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Greek.
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
Kiril through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 163
- 163 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2010
- 15 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #13,070 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −81%
- Cooling
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 13,070 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 15 in 2010. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 666 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Kiril’s family of names
In Serbo-Croatian usage, Kiril has a conventional equivalent in the English form Cyril. In Serbo-Croatian usage, Kiril has a conventional equivalent in the English form Kirill. Kiril has a related form in Kirill.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Kiril has relatives in 4 languages. Lines run from its Ancient Greek roots to each of them.
4 related names in 4 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 4
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 4
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 15
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Kiril
- Kiril PetkovBulgarian politician, economist and entrepreneurborn 1980
- Kiril MetkovBulgarian association football playerborn 1965
- Kiril LazarovMacedonian handball playerborn 1980
- Kiril, Prince of PreslavBulgarian Royal (1895-1945)
- Kiril DespodovBulgarian footballerborn 1996
- Kiril IvkovBulgarian footballer1946–2025
- Kiril DojčinovskiMacedonian footballer (1943–2022)
- Kiril GeorgievBulgarian and Macedonian chess grandmasterborn 1965
- Kiril TerzievOlympic wrestlerborn 1983
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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