Meaning & origin
How it developed
In English usage, Sypher as a surname developed from SEIFER.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2023. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Sypher through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 10
- 5 boys · 5 girls
- Most popular year
- 2023
- 5 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #16,999 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 16,999 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 468 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.
Sypher’s family of names
In English usage, Sypher as a surname developed from the German form SEIFER.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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