Meaning & Origin
A male given name from Ancient Greek; best known for a ninth century missionary to the Slavs.
Cyril is a boy's and girl's baby name of Greek origin, from the Greek Kyrillos, related to kyrios meaning 'lord' or 'master.' Saint Cyril, the 9th-century Byzantine missionary, created the Glagolitic alphabet — which evolved into the Cyrillic alphabet — to bring Christianity to the Slavic peoples.
With nearly 12,000 U.S. births recorded, Cyril carries a quietly distinguished intellectual legacy — the name of a man who shaped how hundreds of millions of people write.