Kiryusha as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Kiryusha

What is the meaning of the name Kiryusha ?

The baby name Kiryusha is a Male name , 3 syllables long and is pronounced kee-RYOO-shuh (IPA: /kʲirˈjuʂə/).

Kiryusha is Russian in Origin.

Kiryusha is a Slavic diminutive of Kirill, from Greek Kyrillos (kyrios “lord, master”), conveying the sense “lordly” or “belonging to the lord.” The name spread into Eastern Europe through Christian saints such as Cyril of Alexandria and the 9th-century missionary St. Cyril, whose work with Methodius fostered the Slavic liturgical tradition and the alphabet later called Cyrillic. Through Orthodox influence it took root in medieval Rus’ and has remained familiar across Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus.

In use, Kiryusha functions as an affectionate home-name for Kirill yet sometimes appears as an independent given name today. Cognates and variants include Kirill (Russian), Kiril/Kyril (Bulgarian, Macedonian), Kyrylo (Ukrainian), Kiryl (Belarusian), Cyril/Cyrille (English, French), Ciril (Slovene), Cirillo (Italian), and Cirilo (Spanish/Portuguese). Related diminutives are Kirya, Kiryukha, and Kirillka. Common transliterations: Kiryusha, Kiriusha, Kirjusha; formal counterpart: Kirill.

⚙ Kiryusha is far from common. We count 9 recorded uses of it across 1 country.