Sila — #5490 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Sila

The Social Security Administration has registered 473 babies named Sila between 1985 and 2024, spanning 40 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Sila currently holds the #5490 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2018, when 43 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Sila performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 241 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Sila shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 32 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Sila in 5 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Sila in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 473 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.