Cypress
Cypress is a boy's name that peaked in 2024, when it was the 1,410th most popular in the United States. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 1,554th. About 2,200 Cypresses are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 6.
Popularity, 1880–2025
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Girls and boys called Cypress
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Cypress crossed from girls to boys in 2015, and has stayed there for 11 of the years counted since. At its furthest it was 64% boys, which is roughly where it still is.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 27 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 2,237
- Estimated living today
- 2,200
- Median age today
- 6
- Peak year
- 2024
- Best rank
- 1,410th
- Rank in 2025
- 1,554th
- First recorded
- 1978
- Girls / boys
- 1,046 / 1,191
How old the living Cypresses are
born that year still alive today
Of the 2,237 babies given the name since 1978, about 2,200 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 1,900 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2019 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where Cypress is most common
Across the country Cypress is recorded 0.22 times per 100,000 births, so these are the states above that line. Only states with 50 or more recorded Cypresses are ranked here: below that a handful of births makes a rate that moves on chance alone.
Counts favour the big states, which is why the same few lead this list for almost every name.
Births recorded in each state since 1910. A name given to fewer than five babies in one state in one year is not published, so a name's quietest states are missing from this rather than showing zero. Browse names by state.
Names of 2024
The most popular boys’ names the year Cypress peaked:
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.