Cyrus

Cyrus carries the dust of empires. The name belongs first to Cyrus the Great, the sixth-century BCE Persian king who freed the Jews from Babylonian captivity and issued what some scholars call the world's earliest declaration of human rights, inscribed on a clay cylinder now housed in the British Museum. From Old Persian Kūruš, often glossed as "sun" or "young," it slipped into English through Quaker families in the eighteenth century and later gave America its first cinematic mogul, Cyrus McCormick. The name currently sits around 254 on the US charts, gaining steady ground. Regal, literary, slightly mysterious — a scholar's pick.