Cyrus

A male given name: from an Old Persian word meaning “throne.”.

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Cyrus is a masculine given name and a surname. Cyrus is the given name of a number of Persian kings. Most notably it refers to Cyrus the Great. Cyrus is also the name of Cyrus I of Anshan (ca. 650 BC), King of Persia the grandfather of Cyrus the Great; and Cyrus the Younger (died 401 BC), brother to the Persian King Artaxerxes II of Persia.
Cyrus, as a word in English, is the Latinized form of the Greek Κῦρος, Kȳros, from Old Persian 𐎤𐎢𐎽𐎢𐏁 Kūruš. According to the inscriptions the name is reflected in Elamite Kuraš, Babylonian Ku(r)-raš/-ra-áš and Imperial Aramaic kwrš. The modern Persian form of the name is Koorosh.
The etymology of Cyrus has been and continues to be a topic of discussion amongst historians, linguists, and scholars of Iranology. The Old Persian name "kuruš" has been interpreted in various forms from "the Sun", "like Sun", "young", "hero" to "humiliator of the enemy in verbal contest" and the Elamite "kuraš" has been translated as one "who bestows care".
The name has appeared on many monuments and inscriptions in Old Persian. There is also the record of a small inscription in Morghab (southwestern Iran) on which there is the sentence (adam kūruš xšāyaƟiya haxāmanišiya) in Old Persian meaning (I am Cyrus the Achaemenian King). After a questionable proposal by the German linguist F. H. Weissbach that Darius the Great was the first to inscribe in Persian, it had previously been concluded by some scholars that the inscription in Morghab refers to Cyrus the Younger. This proposal was the result of a false interpretation of a passage in paragraph 70 of Behistun inscription by Darius the Great. Based on many arguments, the accepted theory among modern scholars is that the inscription does belong to Cyrus the Great.
There are interpretations of name of Cyrus by classical authors identifying with or referring to the Persian word for “Sun”. The Historian Plutarch (46 - 120) states that "the sun, which, in the Persian language, is called Cyrus". Also the Physician Ctesias who served in the court of the Persian king Artaxerxes II of Persia writes in his book Persica as summarized by Photios that the name Cyrus is from Persian word "Khur" (the sun). These are, however, not accepted by modern scholars.
Regarding the etymology of Old Persian kuruš, linguists have proposed various etymologies based on Iranian languages as well as non-Indo-European ones. According to Tavernier, the name kuraš, attested in Elamite texts, is likely "the original form" as there is no Elamite or Babylonian spelling ku-ru-uš in the transcriptions of Old Persian ku-u-r(u)-u-š. That is, according to Tavernier, kuraš is an Elamite name and means "to bestow care". Others, such as Schmitt, Hoffmann maintain that the Persian Kuruš, which according to Skalmowsky, may be connected to (or a borrowing from) the IE Kúru- from Old Indic can give an etymology of the Elamite kuraš. In this regard the Old Persian kuruš is considered with the following etymologies: One proposal is discussed by the linguist Janos Harmatta that refers to the common Iranian root "kur-" (be born) of many words in Old, middle, and new Iranian languages (e.g. Kurdish). Accordingly, the name Kūruš means "young, youth...". Other Iranian etymologies have been proposed. The Indian proposal of Skalmowsky goes down to "to do, accomplish". Another theory is the suggestion of Karl Hoffmann that kuruš goes down to a -ru derivation from the IE root *(s)kau meaning "to humiliate" and accordingly "kuruš" (hence "Cyrus") means "humiliator (of the enemy in verbal contest)".

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Latinized form of Greek Kyros, from Old Persian Kurush, a name of unknown etymology. In Hebrew, Koresh, and in that form taken c. 1990 by Wayne Howell of Texas, U.S., when he became head of the Branch Davidian church there.

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Anglicized form of the Greek name Kyros, means: lord; borne by several kings of Persia.

Kourosh, Kira

Popularity	Name	Birth Year	Description
1	Miley Cyrus	1992	American actress and singer-songwriter
2	Noah Cyrus	2000	American child actress
3	Cyrus the Great		King and founder of the Achaemenid Empire
4	Billy Ray Cyrus	1961	Singer-songwriter, actor, film producer
5	Trace Cyrus	1989	American musician
6	Ron Cyrus	1935	Kentucky-born Democratic politician
7	Cyrus S. Poonawalla		Indian businessman
8	Cyrus Vance	1917	Former United States Secretary of State
9	Cyrus McCormick	1809	Inventor, businessman
10	Cyrus Christie	1992	Footballer
11	Cyrus Arnold	2003
12	Cyrus Sahukar	1980	Indian television presenter
13	Cyrus Jones	1993
14	Tish Cyrus	1959	American teacher and producer
15	Cyrus Pallonji Mistry	1968	Irish businessman
16	Cyrus Villanueva	1996
17	Cyrus Broacha	1971	Indian actor
18	Cyrus Kouandjio	1993	American football offensive lineman
19	Cyrus Habib	1981	American legislator
20	Cyrus Lupo		Character in the TV series Law & Order
21	Cyrus West Field	1819	American businessman
22	Cyrus Gray	1989	American football running back
23	Cyrus the Younger		Achaemenid king
24	Cyrus I
25	Brandi Cyrus		Stepsister of Miley Cyrus
26	Cyrus Todiwala	1956	Indian chef
27	Cyrus Nowrasteh	1956	American film director and screenwriter
28	Cyrus Baguio	1980	Filipino basketball player
29	Cyrus Vance, Jr.	1954	American trial lawyer
30	Cyrus Griffin	1749	United States federal judge
31	Cyrus Teed	1839	Self-declared messiah
32	Cyrus Chestnut	1963	American musician
33	Cyrus Mistry		Indian writer
34	Cyrus S. Eaton	1883	American businessman
35	Cyrus Edwin Dallin	1861	American sculptor
36	Daneil Cyrus	1990	Trinidad and Tobago footballer
37	Cyrus of Alexandria		Patriarch of Alexandria
38	Cyrus Leo Sulzberger II	1912	American journalist and non-fiction writer
39	Cyrus Vandrevala		Indian businessman
40	Cyrus Fees	1982	Wrestling announcer
41	Cyrus Avery	1871	American businessman
42	Cyrus K. Holliday	1826	American politician
43	Cyrus Smith		Character created by Jules Verne
44	Cyrus Faryar	1936	American musician
45	Cyrus Amir-Mokri	1964	Civil servant
46	Cyrus Jirongo		Politician
47	Cyrus Thomas	1825	American Mesoamericanist
48	Cyrus Herzl Gordon	1908	American linguist
49	Cyrus Hostetler	1986	American javelin thrower
50	Cyrus Adler	1863	Jewish American historian, scholar, religious leader
51	Cyrus Chothia	1942	Emeritus scientist at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) and emeritus fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge
52	Cyrus King	1772	American politician
53	Cyrus A. Ansary	1935	American lawyer, businessman
54	Gordon Cyrus	1966	Swedish musician
55	Cyrus Leroy Baldridge	1889	American author, artist
56	Cyrus B. Comstock	1831	Major general in the United States Army during the American Civil War
57	Cyrus Locher	1878	American politician
58	Cyrus Poncha	1976	Indian squash player and coach
59	Cyrus Frisch	1969	Dutch film director
60	Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis	1850	American publisher
61	Cyrus Foley
62	Cyrus Townsend Brady	1861	American writer
63	Cyrus Hashemi	1942	Iranian arms trader
64	Cyrus C. Carpenter	1829	American politician
65	Cyrus Da Virus
66	Cyrus Sadri	1970	German radio host
67	Cyrus Wesley Peck	1871	Canadian politician
68	Cyrus Tang	1930	Businessperson
69	Cyrus G. Luce	1824	American politician
70	Cyrus L. W. Eidlitz	1853	American architect
71	Cyrus Woods	1861	American diplomat, attorney, politician
72	Cyrus L. Dunham	1817	American Politician
73	Cyrus S. Ching	1876	American businessman
74	Cyrus Northrop	1834	American academic
75	Cyrus Levinthal	1922	American molecular biologist
76	Annalyn Cyrus	1997	American actress
77	Cyrus Patell	1961	American academic
78	David Cyrus	1989	Grenadian footballer
79	Cyrus Pitt Grosvenor	1792	Anti-Slavery Baptist minister
80	Cyrus Cline	1856	American politician
81	Cyrus Byington	1793	Christian missionary
82	Cyrus Pringle	1838	U.S. botanist, writer, tax resister and quaker
83	Cyrus Sutton	1982	American director
84	Cyrus C. Miller	1866	Lacrosse player
85	Cyrus Peirce	1790	American academic
86	Cyrus Overbeck	1970
87	Cyrus H. Wheelock	1813	Mission president of the LDS Church
88	Cyrus of Panopolis
89	Cyrus Ramone Pattinson	1994
90	Cyrus Aldrich	1808	American politician
91	Cyrus Massoumi
92	Cyrus Forough		Violinist
93	Cyrus Hayden	1843	United States Navy Medal of Honor recipient
94	Cyrus Trapaud	1715	British Army general
95	Cyrus Derman	1925	American mathematician
96	Cyrus Engerer	1981	Maltese politician
97	Cyrus Colton MacDuffee	1895	American mathematician
98	Cyrus Bussey	1833	Union Army General
99	Cyrus Spink	1793	American politician
100	Cyrus Beers	1786	American politician
101	Cyrus Cassells	1957	American writer
102	Cyrus K. Bettis	1893	American air racer
103	Cyrus Macmillan	1882	Canadian academic, writer, and politician
104	Cyrus Alger	1781	United States arms manufacturer and inventor.
105	Cyrus E. Dietz	1876	American football player, coach, lawyer, judge
106	Cyrus Longworth Lundell	1907	American botanist
107	Cyrus Mann	1956	American basketball player
108	Cyrus Skinner		American outlaw
109	Andy Cyrus	1976	Footballer
110	Cyrus W. Cole	1876
111	Cyrus
112	Cyrus Farivar	1982	Journalist
113	Cyrus Redding	1785	British writer
114	Cyrus Hall McCormick II	1859	American businessman
115	Cyrus Saatsaz		American radio personality
116	Cyrus Wakefield	1811	American businessman
117	Cyrus Durey	1864	American politician
118	Cyrus Kar	1961	Iranian film director
119	Cyrus D. Prescott	1836	American politician
120	Cyrus Alexander	1805	Mexican-American settler and landowner
121	Cyrus Hoy	1926
122	Cyrus Mark	1900	American conservationist
123	Cyrus Chu	1955	Taiwanese politician
124	Cyrus Wadia		American policy analyst
125	Cyrus Bagwadia	1947	Indian businessperson
126	Cyrus Simpson		The Simpsons character
127	Cyrus Ghani	1929	Iranian film critic
128	Cyrus Lawrence		American football player
129	Lieselore Cyrus	1951	German diplomat
130	Cyrus Field Willard	1858
131	Cyrus Nutt	1814	United States educator and clergyman
132	Cyrus Hobbi	1993	American football offensive lineman
133	Cyrus Olney	1815	American politician, jurist and lawyer
134	Cyrus A. Sulloway	1839	Attorney and Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from New Hampshire
135	Cyrus C. Yawkey	1862	American businessman and politician
136	Cyrus Shahabi		American computer scientist
137	Cyrus Nils Tavares	1902	American judge
138	Cyrus David	1961	German actor
139	Cyrus Willard	1830
140	Cyrus A. Dolph	1840	American businessman
141	Cyrus William Beales	1877	American politician
142	Cyrus Fernandez		Filipino musician
143	Cyrus Walbridge	1849	American politician
144	Cyrus Osborn	1897
145	Cyrus Baldwin	1773	American civil engineer
146	Cyrus Atabay	1929	Iranian translator and poet
147	Cyrus "Buddy" Kalb	1938	American singer-songwriter
148	Cyrus Maxwell Boger	1861
149	Cyrus M. Running	1913	American artist
150	Cyrus Woodman	1814	Lawyer and Wisconsin land speculator
151	Cyrus Pitman	1944	Anglican bishop
152	Cyrus Hamlin	1936	American academic
153	Cyrus Maffet Palmer	1887	American politician
154	Cyrus Lakdawala	1960	American non-fiction writer
155	Cyrus G. Wiley	1881	President of Savannah State University
156	Cyrus Remington	1824	American politician
157	Cyrus Gates	1802
158	Cyrus Harvey, Jr.	1925	American film distributor
159	Cyrus Melikian	1920	American businessman
160	Cyrus Haley	1832	Arsonist
161	Cyrus David Foss	1834	American bishop
162	Cyrus Mahboubian	1986
163	Cyrus Thompson	1855	American politician
164	Cyrus Njui	1986	Kenyan distance runner
165	Cyrus Andrews	1902	Writer
166	Cyrus II of Edessa		Syrian priest
167	Cyrus B. Lower	1843	American Civil War Medal of Honor recipient
168	Cyrus L. Warner	1789	American architect
169	Cyrus Miner	1827
170	Cyrus Rahbar	1971	German actor
171	Josef Cyrus	1947	German film director and screenwriter
172	Cyrus D. Bell	1848
173	Cyrus Ainsworth	1888	English cricketer
174	Cyrus R. Crosby	1879	American entomologist
175	Cyrus Bryant	1798	American educator
176	Cyrus Kinne Porter	1828	American architect
177	Cyrus Stokes Gentry	1892	American lawyer
178	Cyrus F. Knight	1831	American bishop
179	Cyrus W. Strickler	1872	American football coach
180	Heinz Cyrus	1936
181	Cyrus L. Philipp		Wisconsin politician
182	Cyrus Lindauer Sulzberger	1858	American merchant and philanthropist
183	Cyrus Neshvad
184	Cyrus Durand Chapman	1856
185	Cyrus P. Smith		Mayor of Brooklyn (1839-1843)
186	Cyrus Prindle	1800	American activist
187	Cyrus Kataron	1982	Kenyan distance runner
188	Cyrus Elias	1930	American actor
189	Cyrus Shaw	1850	Canadian politician
190	Cyrus Sears	1832
191	Cyrus W. Crosby	1855	Canadian politician
192	Hannelore Cyrus	1935	German historian
193	Cyrus M. Butt
194	Cyrus Console
195	Cyrus Highsmith		US-american typographer
196	Cyrus Beard
197	Cyrus Wong	1982	Hong Kong actor
198	Cyrus L. Lathrop	1862
199	Cyrus W. Davis	1856
200	Cyrus Granér	1870	Swedish writer