Sylus
#2,167 for boys in 2025, 66 births
- Peak · boys
- 2013 · 84 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,244since 1998
Sylus over time
Rank among boys' names. Sylus has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,167 | 66 |
| 2024 | #2,637 | 50 |
| 2023 | #2,614 | 50 |
| 2022 | #2,517 | 54 |
| 2021 | #2,918 | 42 |
| 2020 | #2,113 | 66 |
| 2019 | #2,582 | 50 |
| 2018 | #2,282 | 59 |
| 2017 | #2,450 | 52 |
| 2016 | #2,028 | 70 |
| 2015 | #2,189 | 62 |
| 2014 | #1,828 | 81 |
| 2013 | #1,733 | 84 |
| 2012 | #1,923 | 74 |
| 2011 | #1,886 | 74 |
| 2010 | #2,010 | 68 |
| 2009 | #2,401 | 53 |
| 2008 | #2,788 | 43 |
| 2007 | #2,974 | 39 |
| 2006 | #4,001 | 24 |
| 2005 | #4,464 | 19 |
| 2004 | #6,138 | 12 |
| 2003 | #5,271 | 14 |
| 2002 | #5,725 | 12 |
| 2001 | #6,935 | 9 |
| 2000 | #9,112 | 6 |
| 1999 | #8,704 | 6 |
| 1998 | #9,631 | 5 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Sylus! It came in at #9,631, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1998–2000, when fewer than 7 boys a year got the name.
Where Sylus is popular in 2014
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Ohio#1,075 · 1 in 10,048
- Florida#1,335 · 1 in 13,716
- California#1,909 · 1 in 28,912
Best ever in a state: #609 in Utah, 2012.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Ohio | #1,075 | 6 | 1 in 10,048 |
| Florida | #1,335 | 7 | 1 in 13,716 |
| California | #1,909 | 8 | 1 in 28,912 |
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See more about Sylus
- 470 spots since 2024 (#2,637 → #2,167)
- 54 spots since 2020 (#2,113 → #2,167)
- 22 spots since 2015 (#2,189 → #2,167)
- Debuted 1998
- Peaked 2013 at #1,733 (84 births)
- Births halved by 2021, 8 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 22,519 boys born in 2013 were named Sylus (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 25,880 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 54.2% of all boys named Sylus (674) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 11 | #8,704 (1999) | #9,168 |
| 2000s | 231 | #2,401 (2009) | #4,981 |
| 2010s | 674 | #1,733 (2013) | #2,091 |
| 2020s | 328 | #2,113 (2020) | #2,494 |
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.
Sylus in 2014
Top boys' names in 2014
More about 2014
boys
1,920,871 boys got a published name in 2014; 1 in 23,714 of them was named Sylus, which outranked 87.0% of the 14,081 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,812Tylen82
- #1,812Tytus82
- #1,812Yahel82
- #1,828Sylus81
- #1,828Arnold81
- #1,828Avian81
- #1,828Chayce81
- #1,844Aurelio80
- #1,844Darrius80
- #1,844Dyson80
Tied with 15 names at #1,828; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.