Cyrille
given name · Latin script
Meaning: ,9 French form of }Cyril, now also occasionally used in the English-speaking world, sometimes as an elaborated spelling variant and sometimes as a feminine form
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/siʁil/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Cyrille is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Cameroon than in any other country, where it is the 42nd most common given name.
- CMCameroon≈1 in 800(inferred from the name graph)
- FRFrance≈1 in 2.4K
- BEBelgium≈1 in 14K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Cameroon (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 356 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 800 (inferred from the name graph)
≈35,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Cameroon, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
,9 French form of }Cyril, now also occasionally used in the English-speaking world, sometimes as an elaborated spelling variant and sometimes as a feminine form.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Cyrille counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CM Cameroon | #42 | ≈35,000 est. | ≈1 in 800 | — | Cyrille | 37 |
| FR France | #361 | ≈29,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | 37K | Cyrille | 356 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | #591 | ≈7,100 est. | ≈1 in 14K | 2 | Cyrille | 13 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 77K | — | Cyrille | 45 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈850 est. | ≈1 in 14K | 1 | Cyrille | 61 |
| CH Switzerland | — | ≈730 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Cyrille | 69 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 429 | 1 in 40K | 258 | Cyrille | 40 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Cyrille is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, a male given name, equivalent to English Cyril
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, Du grec kyrios, « seigneur »; fêtes des saints Cyrille.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
French form of CYRIL , now also occasionally used in the English-speaking world, sometimes as a elaborated spelling variant and sometimes as a feminine form.
as a word
In Latin, vocative singular of Cȳrillus
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Cyrille Adoulab. 1921CDCongolese Prime Minister, Ambassador (1921-1978)
- Cyrille Regisb. 1958FREnglish footballer (1958-2018)
- Cyrille Makanakyb. 1965CMCameroonian footballer
- Luc Nilisb. 1967BEnot in their usual nameBelgian association football player
- Cyrille Diabatéb. 1973FRFrench martial artist
- Cyrille Aufortb. 1974FRFrench composer
- Cyrille Florent Bellab. 1975CMCameroonian footballer
- Cyrille Thouveninb. 1976FRFrench actor
- Cyrille Maretb. 1987FRFrench judoka
- Cyrille Bayalab. 1996BFBurkinabé footballer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 47 sources across 30 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 37K | #2,387 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 1999 | 1.3K | #1,785 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 258 | #2,465 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 171 | #3,992 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 147 | #6,481 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 82 | #8,959 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 2 | #301 |
| NL Netherlands | Babynamen — Lijst met meer dan 22.000 namen (Amelia King, 2020) | — | — | — |
| FR France | Dictionary of French Prénoms (Benoist, 2009) | — | — | — |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | WGND 2.0 — DR Congo given names | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Cyrille mean, and where does it come from?
- ,9 French form of }Cyril, now also occasionally used in the English-speaking world, sometimes as an elaborated spelling variant and sometimes as a feminine form. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- What are other forms of the name Cyrille?
- In the etymology graph, Cyril, Kirill and Ciriaco are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Cyrille?
- A machine transcription gives /siʁil/ (IPA) for French.
- Is Cyrille a male or female name?
- Cyrille is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Cyrille have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 35 thousand people named Cyrille in Cameroon, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cyrille.
- How common is the name Cyrille?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 429 people named Cyrille, about 1 in 40 thousand residents.
- How common is Cyrille compared with other names?
- In Cameroon, Cyrille is the 42nd most common given name of 9,064 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Cyrille?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cyrilleThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Cyrille” — the 42nd most common given name in Cameroon. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.