Kiril
The male name Kiril is a common first name in the Orthodox Slavic world, in particular in Bulgaria, North Macedonia, and Russia. It is also well known in Greece but in different forms like Kyriakos.
Kiril has several variant forms: Cyril, Cyrill, Kirill, Kirillos, Kiryl, Kyril, Cyryl, Kyrill, Kyrylo and a diminutive Kiro.
Saint Cyril of Jerusalem was a 4th-century bishop and a Doctor of the Church. Saint Cyril of Alexandria was a 5th-century theologian. Another Saint Cyril, known as Kiril, was a 9th-century translator and a Byzantine missionary to the Slavs. He, together with his brother Methodius, created an alphabet called the Glagolitic alphabet to serve the needs of the Slavic world, translating the Bible into the Church Slavic language. Later, their students created a simpler and graphically usable alphabet, which is known after Cyril as the Cyrillic alphabet and is still used by millions of people.People with the name
