Sylas
Sylas was given to 717 boys in 2025, #440 among boys’ names; 8,966 Americans have been recorded with it since 1975 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 8,890 Americans named Sylas and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 4 and 13.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sylas by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Sylas mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Sylas is “a male given name.”
Rare non-standard spelling of Silas.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Sylas?
#440 among boys’ names, 2025
Sylas rose from #612 in 2015 to #440 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.23 to 0.42 per 1,000.
732 babies in 2025, the peak
Sylas peaked in 2025, when 732 babies were given it (717 boys, #440 among boys’ names). In 2024 it went to 637 boys.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 717 | #440 | 0.42 |
| 2024 | 637 | #486 | 0.37 |
| 2023 | 662 | #464 | 0.39 |
| 2022 | 627 | #487 | 0.36 |
| 2021 | 551 | #534 | 0.31 |
| 2020 | 472 | #587 | 0.27 |
| 2019 | 442 | #619 | 0.25 |
| 2018 | 421 | #632 | 0.23 |
| 2017 | 390 | #657 | 0.21 |
| 2016 | 416 | #639 | 0.22 |
Every recorded year (43)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 439 | #612 | 0.23 |
| 2014 | 382 | #670 | 0.20 |
| 2013 | 508 | #525 | 0.27 |
| 2012 | 389 | #624 | 0.21 |
| 2011 | 377 | #625 | 0.20 |
| 2010 | 256 | #835 | 0.13 |
| 2009 | 254 | #848 | 0.13 |
| 2008 | 172 | #1,088 | 0.08 |
| 2007 | 156 | #1,148 | 0.08 |
| 2006 | 82 | #1,721 | 0.04 |
| 2005 | 84 | #1,630 | 0.04 |
| 2004 | 67 | #1,849 | 0.03 |
| 2003 | 76 | #1,652 | 0.04 |
| 2002 | 64 | #1,810 | 0.03 |
| 2001 | 30 | #3,049 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 31 | #2,905 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 28 | #3,017 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 22 | #3,468 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 20 | #3,568 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 23 | #3,185 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 15 | #4,238 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 11 | #5,403 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 8 | #6,734 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 5 | #9,632 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 5 | #9,445 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 6 | #7,989 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 9 | #5,532 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 5 | #7,683 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 9 | #4,506 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 5 | #7,198 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 5 | #7,177 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 6 | #5,958 | under 0.01 |
| 1975 | 5 | #6,226 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Sylas a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sylas has been given almost only to boys: 77 girls in 43 years of records.
Girls and boys named Sylas: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sylas, and how old are they?
8,890 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 8,966 Americans ever recorded as Sylas. The median Sylas alive today is 8 years old; half are between 4 and 13.
The 2020 Census counted 4,665 people named Sylas (45 women and girls, 4,620 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,317 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 15 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 97 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,090 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 6,690 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Sylas born?
The states with the most babies named Sylas are California, Texas and Florida, with 22% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 73 | #441 | 0.6× |
| Texas | 44 | #676 | 0.6× |
| Florida | 36 | #507 | 0.8× |
| New York | 36 | #471 | 0.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 33 | #340 | 1.0× |
| Ohio | 27 | #408 | 1.2× |
| Tennessee | 26 | #346 | 1.2× |
| Illinois | 26 | #431 | 0.7× |
| Indiana | 25 | #315 | 1.5× |
| Michigan | 20 | #443 | 1.0× |
Where Sylas is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Sylas is most over-represented in Kansas: since 1975 it was given 1.7 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Sylas with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Sylas?
Sylas is a less common spelling of Silas: SSA has recorded 8,966 Sylas and 75,649 Silas since 1880.
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 87,186 babies since 1880, Sylas is the second most given (10% of them). In 2025 it was given to 732 of their 5,530 babies (13%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Sylas
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Sylas and names like it
- Compare Sylas and SilasBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sSylas peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sylas since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Sylas.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Sylas alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with SMost given first.