Sylis
Sylis was given to 63 boys in 2025, #2,253 among boys’ names; 1,043 Americans have been recorded with it since 1998 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,030 Americans named Sylis and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 6 and 15.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sylis by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Sylis?
#2,253 among boys’ names, 2025
Sylis fell from #2,224 in 2015 to #2,253 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 31.8 to 36.9 per million.
84 babies in 2013, the peak
Sylis peaked in 2013, when 84 boys were given it, #1,751 among boys’ names. The 63 births of 2025 are 75% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 63 | #2,253 | 36.9 |
| 2024 | 37 | #3,265 | 21.5 |
| 2023 | 34 | #3,462 | 19.9 |
| 2022 | 42 | #2,992 | 24.1 |
| 2021 | 48 | #2,689 | 27.4 |
| 2020 | 38 | #3,065 | 22.0 |
| 2019 | 35 | #3,333 | 19.5 |
| 2018 | 38 | #3,094 | 20.9 |
| 2017 | 57 | #2,310 | 30.8 |
| 2016 | 74 | #1,970 | 39.0 |
Every recorded year (26)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 61 | #2,224 | 31.8 |
| 2014 | 66 | #2,112 | 34.4 |
| 2013 | 84 | #1,751 | 44.4 |
| 2012 | 64 | #2,127 | 33.7 |
| 2011 | 61 | #2,168 | 32.1 |
| 2010 | 56 | #2,319 | 29.2 |
| 2009 | 44 | #2,793 | 22.2 |
| 2008 | 46 | #2,710 | 22.5 |
| 2007 | 29 | #3,677 | 14.0 |
| 2006 | 19 | #4,833 | 9.2 |
| 2005 | 5 | #13,096 | 2.5 |
| 2004 | 10 | #7,445 | 5.0 |
| 2003 | 12 | #6,195 | 6.1 |
| 2002 | 8 | #8,336 | 4.1 |
| 2001 | 7 | #9,105 | 3.6 |
| 1998 | 5 | #11,089 | 2.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Sylis a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sylis has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 26 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Sylis: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sylis, and how old are they?
1,030 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,043 Americans ever recorded as Sylis. The median Sylis alive today is 11 years old; half are between 6 and 15.
The 2020 Census counted 702 people named Sylis (18 women and girls, 684 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 784 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% 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 Z | 1997-2012 | 362 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 672 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 87,186 babies since 1880, Sylis is the fourth most given (1.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 63 of their 5,530 babies (1.1%), again the fourth 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 Sylis
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 Sylis and names like it
- Compare Sylis and SilasBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sSylis peaked in 2013.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sylis since 1910.
- The top names of 2013The year the most babies were named Sylis.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Sylis alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with SMost given first.