Sylar — #7541 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Sylar

The Social Security Administration has registered 812 babies named Sylar between 2006 and 2024, spanning 19 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Sylar currently holds the #7541 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2009, when 91 babies received it in a single year. Sylar is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 57 additional births since 2007.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Sylar performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 547 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Sylar shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 38 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Sylar in 12 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Sylar 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 812 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.