Kyros as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Kyros

What is the meaning of the name Kyros ?

The baby name Kyros is a Male name , 2 syllables long and is pronounced KY-ros (English: /ˈkaɪroʊs/ or UK: /ˈkaɪrɒs/).

Kyros is in Origin.

Kyros is the Greek form (Kyros, Κῦρος) of an Old Persian royal name Kuruš, best known in the West as Cyrus. While folk etymology in Greek associated it with kyros "authority, power," the Persian origin is likely unrelated and its exact meaning remains debated; proposals range from "sun" to "young" or "far-sighted," and many scholars simply mark it as of uncertain meaning.

Recorded widely in classical and biblical Greek (Herodotus, Xenophon, the Septuagint), the name was borne by Cyrus the Great and later Achaemenid rulers, and by the early Christian healer-martyr Saint Kyros (Cyrus) of Alexandria, keeping it alive in Greek and Coptic tradition. Today Kyros reads as a sleek, modern variant. Related forms include Cyrus (English/Latin), Ciro (Italian, Spanish, Portuguese), Kourosh/Kurosh and Siroos (Persian), and Koresh (Hebrew). Contemporary shortenings or cognates include Kyro and the feminine Cyra.