The baby name Cyning is a Male name , 2 syllables long and is pronounced /ˈkyniŋ/ (Old English); approx. "KY-ning" or "KYU-ning" in modern respelling.
Cyning is English in Origin.
The baby name Cyning is a Male name , 2 syllables long and is pronounced /ˈkyniŋ/ (Old English); approx. "KY-ning" or "KYU-ning" in modern respelling.
Cyning is English in Origin.
Cyning is the Old English word for “king,” from Proto-Germanic *kuningaz, built on *kunją “kin, clan” plus the suffix *-ingaz “belonging to; one of,” hence “one of noble kin” and, by extension, “ruler.” It has close cognates across Germanic: Old Norse konungr (Icelandic konungur), Old High German kuning > modern German König, Dutch koning, Swedish konung/kung, and it is the ancestor of modern English king.
In historical England, Cyning functioned as a title rather than a personal name, appearing frequently in Beowulf and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, and it does not occur as a given name in extant records. As a modern revival, it is an extremely rare word-name, comparable to King or the Latin equivalent Rex. Variant and related forms include Koning, König, Konge, Konung/Kung, and English King; the Anglo-Saxon name element cyne- (“royal”) also survives in compounds like Cynewulf.
Cyning is an extremely rare name. Across our dataset of national birth registries and international name records, Cyning appears only 1 time in total — found in 1 country. If you're considering it, you'd be giving your child a name almost nobody else has.
Based on birth registration data from national statistics agencies.
| Country | Gender | Year | Rank | Born | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN | Boys | 0 | #331 | 1 | 9,639 |
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