Sylas
#7,133 for girls in 2025, 15 births · #440 for boys in 2025, 717 births
Given to boys 99.1% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 717 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 8,889since 1975
Sylas over time
Rank among boys' names. Sylas has never cracked the top 400 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #7,133 | 15 | #440 | 717 |
| 2024 | #10,271 | 9 | #486 | 637 |
| 2023 | #9,616 | 10 | #464 | 662 |
| 2022 | #10,383 | 9 | #487 | 627 |
| 2021 | #11,146 | 8 | #534 | 551 |
| 2020 | #13,453 | 6 | #585 | 472 |
| 2019 | #15,539 | 5 | #619 | 442 |
| 2018 | — | #631 | 421 | |
| 2017 | #15,902 | 5 | #657 | 390 |
| 2016 | #16,215 | 5 | #638 | 416 |
| 2015 | — | #611 | 439 | |
| 2014 | — | #670 | 382 | |
| 2013 | — | #524 | 508 | |
| 2012 | — | #624 | 389 | |
| 2011 | #16,764 | 5 | #624 | 377 |
| 2010 | — | #834 | 256 | |
| 2009 | — | #843 | 254 | |
| 2008 | — | #1,086 | 172 | |
| 2007 | — | #1,144 | 156 | |
| 2006 | — | #1,713 | 82 | |
| 2005 | — | #1,619 | 84 | |
| 2004 | — | #1,834 | 67 | |
| 2003 | — | #1,646 | 76 | |
| 2002 | — | #1,792 | 64 | |
| 2001 | — | #2,988 | 30 | |
| 2000 | — | #2,864 | 31 | |
| 1999 | — | #2,939 | 28 | |
| 1998 | — | #3,390 | 22 | |
| 1997 | — | #3,455 | 20 | |
| 1996 | — | #3,107 | 23 | |
| 1995 | — | #4,052 | 15 | |
| 1994 | — | #5,109 | 11 | |
| 1993 | — | #6,228 | 8 | |
| 1992 | — | #8,435 | 5 | |
| 1991 | — | #8,236 | 5 | |
| 1990 | — | #7,178 | 6 | |
| 1989 | — | #5,165 | 9 | |
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| 1986 | — | #6,721 | 5 | |
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| 1984 | — | #4,215 | 9 | |
| 1983 | — | #6,238 | 5 | |
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| 1980 | — | #6,250 | 5 | |
| 1979 | — | #5,355 | 6 | |
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| 1975 | — | #5,464 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Sylas! It came in at #5,464, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1975–1978, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Sylas is popular in 2019
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Missouri#327 · 1 in 1,566
- Iowa#328 · 1 in 1,438
- Kentucky#333 · 1 in 1,463
- Idaho#335 · 1 in 1,302
- Kansas#343 · 1 in 1,413
Best ever in a state: #145 in South Dakota, 2025.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Missouri | #327 | 19 | 1 in 1,566 |
| Iowa | #328 | 10 | 1 in 1,438 |
| Kentucky | #333 | 14 | 1 in 1,463 |
| Idaho | #335 | 6 | 1 in 1,302 |
| Kansas | #343 | 10 | 1 in 1,413 |
| West Virginia | #347 | 5 | 1 in 1,466 |
| Nevada | #375 | 8 | 1 in 1,605 |
| Oregon | #375 | 10 | 1 in 1,647 |
| Oklahoma | #396 | 11 | 1 in 1,678 |
| Indiana | #405 | 17 | 1 in 1,983 |
| Wisconsin | #409 | 13 | 1 in 1,930 |
| Arizona | #418 | 16 | 1 in 2,090 |
| Michigan | #426 | 20 | 1 in 2,202 |
| Minnesota | #434 | 12 | 1 in 2,181 |
| Connecticut | #435 | 5 | 1 in 2,647 |
| Tennessee | #458 | 15 | 1 in 2,347 |
| Arkansas | #476 | 6 | 1 in 2,218 |
| Ohio | #476 | 21 | 1 in 2,694 |
| South Carolina | #499 | 8 | 1 in 2,578 |
| Pennsylvania | #538 | 16 | 1 in 3,491 |
| Virginia | #594 | 11 | 1 in 3,590 |
| Colorado | #633 | 7 | 1 in 3,688 |
| Florida | #650 | 22 | 1 in 4,307 |
| Utah | #660 | 5 | 1 in 3,871 |
| Illinois | #712 | 12 | 1 in 4,793 |
| Washington | #767 | 7 | 1 in 4,867 |
| Maryland | #779 | 5 | 1 in 5,211 |
| New York | #847 | 15 | 1 in 6,237 |
| California | #866 | 27 | 1 in 7,524 |
| Texas | #896 | 24 | 1 in 7,272 |
| Georgia | #938 | 8 | 1 in 6,493 |
| New Jersey | #993 | 5 | 1 in 7,950 |
| North Carolina | #1,061 | 6 | 1 in 8,358 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Sylas
- 46 spots since 2024 (#486 → #440)
- 145 spots since 2020 (#585 → #440)
- 171 spots since 2015 (#611 → #440)
- Biggest jump: 243 spots in 2009 (#1,086 → #843)
- Biggest drop: 146 spots in 2014 (#524 → #670)
- Debuted 1975
- Peaked 2025 at #440 (717 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 17 yrs · run 2009–2025
- Highest: 1 in 2,382 boys born in 2025 were named Sylas (0.04%)
- 45.2% of all boys named Sylas (4,020) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 11 | #5,355 (1979) | #5,410 |
| 1980s | 33 | #4,215 (1984) | #5,718 |
| 1990s | 143 | #2,939 (1999) | #5,213 |
| 2000s | 1,016 | #843 (2009) | #1,753 |
| 2010s | 4,020 | #524 (2013) | #643 |
| 2020s | 3,666 | #440 (2025) | #499 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Sylas in 2019
Top girls' names in 2019
Top boys' names in 2019
More about 2019
girls
1,678,366 girls got a published name in 2019; 1 in 335,673 of them was named Sylas, which outranked 13.8% of the 18,024 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 2,485 names at #15,539; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,794,216 boys got a published name in 2019; 1 in 4,059 of them was named Sylas, which outranked 95.6% of the 14,133 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.