Girls' name · since 2008

Sylah

96 babies named Sylah in U.S. Social Security records since 2008, with the highest year being 2024. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.

#27,606 of 72,339
all-time among girls
#8,739 of 17,297
2025 SSA year
96
born since 2008
2020s
peak decade

96 babies have been named Sylah since 2008, making it today's #8739 girls' name.

According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Sylah has been recorded 96 times among girls since 2008, currently ranked #8739 nationally and more common than 49% of girls, with its heaviest use in the 2020s. This profile covers year-by-year birth trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution, all derived directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2008 to 2025.

  • #27,606 of 72,339 all-time among girls
  • #8,739 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
  • 96 born since 2008
  • 2020s peak decade

Data updated Aug 2026

The verdict

According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Sylah ranks #27,606 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #8,739 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 96 born since 2008, peaking in the 2020s.

#27,606 of 72,339
all-time among girls
#8,739 of 17,297
2025 SSA year
96
born since 2008
2020s
peak decade
0%100%Median name50%49.4%
Sylah vs. every other girls name in current SSA rankings
Below the archive median
All-time archive position

Sylah's 96 recorded births place it above 61.82% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.

National only
State-record footprint

No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.

How Sylah compares

96 24th percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls

Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.

Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data

How the numbers stack up

Sylah's all-time total is 74% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.

Metric Sylah Median girls name (Kyann) #1 girls name (Olivia)
All-time total births 96 376 567,345
Peak-year births 13 21 19,840

Sylah's usage pattern, beyond the headline number

Divide Sylah's SSA record in two at 2020 and the more recent half accounts for 71% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 29%, consistent with a name still gaining ground rather than fading. Its calmest year was 2008, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 2024 peak of 13, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.

Sylah popularity over time

Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2008–2025

Outside the top 1,000
Peak year (2024)
13
Annual births at peak, across 18 years of records
468101214 20082010201120132016202020212022202320242025 12

Sylah by decade

2020s is the heaviest window (68 births, 71% of the file).

2020s was Sylah's strongest decade.

68 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 71% of all-time use.

Sylah births by decade

Total births in each ten-year window

births

What this shows Peak: 2020s at 68 births (71% of all-time use).

Source U.S. Social Security Administration · Baby Names As of August 2026

Frequently Asked Questions

How popular is the name Sylah?
Sylah has been given to 96 babies in the U.S. since 2008, according to SSA data. Its archive ordinal is #27,606 of 72,339 among girls' names (total births, highest first). Among girls in 2025, it is #8,739 of 17,297. 13 babies were born in 2024, its single highest year.
Where does Sylah sit in the SSA name archive?
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Sylah ranks #27,606 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #8,739 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. All-time ordinal matches browse popularity (total births DESC); the current ordinal uses the 2025 SSA file. See /methodology#corpus-placement.
When was Sylah most popular?
Sylah was most popular in the 2020s decade with 68 total births. The single peak year was 2024.
How long has the name Sylah been used?
Sylah has been recorded in Social Security data since 2008, spanning 18 years of data through 2025.
What names are similar to Sylah?
Names with a similar sound or spelling include Sylvia, Sylvie, Sylva, Sylvana, and 4 more. These share a common prefix and are also used for girls.

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Two nationwide peer axes for Sylah: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.

Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.

Data Sources

Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).

According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.

Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2008–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).

State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).

Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Sylah draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.