Sylus
Sylus was given to 66 boys in 2025, #2,180 among boys’ names; 1,244 Americans have been recorded with it since 1998 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,230 Americans named Sylus 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 Sylus by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Sylus?
#2,180 among boys’ names, 2025
Sylus rose from #2,207 in 2015 to #2,180 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 32.3 to 38.6 per million.
84 babies in 2013, the peak
Sylus peaked in 2013, when 84 boys were given it, #1,752 among boys’ names. The 66 births of 2025 are 79% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 66 | #2,180 | 38.6 |
| 2024 | 50 | #2,667 | 29.0 |
| 2023 | 50 | #2,651 | 29.2 |
| 2022 | 54 | #2,553 | 30.9 |
| 2021 | 42 | #2,966 | 24.0 |
| 2020 | 66 | #2,136 | 38.2 |
| 2019 | 50 | #2,617 | 27.9 |
| 2018 | 59 | #2,297 | 32.5 |
| 2017 | 52 | #2,486 | 28.1 |
| 2016 | 70 | #2,042 | 36.9 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 62 | #2,207 | 32.3 |
| 2014 | 81 | #1,842 | 42.2 |
| 2013 | 84 | #1,752 | 44.4 |
| 2012 | 74 | #1,936 | 39.0 |
| 2011 | 74 | #1,900 | 39.0 |
| 2010 | 68 | #2,032 | 35.4 |
| 2009 | 53 | #2,442 | 26.7 |
| 2008 | 43 | #2,822 | 21.1 |
| 2007 | 39 | #3,016 | 18.8 |
| 2006 | 24 | #4,082 | 11.7 |
| 2005 | 19 | #4,604 | 9.5 |
| 2004 | 12 | #6,456 | 6.0 |
| 2003 | 14 | #5,504 | 7.1 |
| 2002 | 12 | #6,021 | 6.2 |
| 2001 | 9 | #7,427 | 4.6 |
| 2000 | 6 | #10,183 | 3.1 |
| 1999 | 6 | #9,746 | 3.1 |
| 1998 | 5 | #11,090 | 2.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Sylus a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sylus has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 28 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Sylus: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sylus, and how old are they?
1,230 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,244 Americans ever recorded as Sylus. The median Sylus alive today is 11 years old; half are between 6 and 15.
The 2020 Census counted 821 people named Sylus (2 women and girls, 819 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 925 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% 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 | 453 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 780 |
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, Sylus is the third most given (1.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 66 of their 5,530 babies (1.2%), again the third 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 Sylus
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 Sylus and names like it
- Compare Sylus and SilasBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sSylus peaked in 2013.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sylus since 1910.
- The top names of 2013The year the most babies were named Sylus.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Sylus alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with SMost given first.