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Sila

#3,963 in 2025Girls' name

From Ancient Greek Σίλας; literal meaning unconfirmed

Sila has been given to 510 babies in the U.S. since 1985. In 2025 it ranked #3,963 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2018, with 43 recorded.

Babies named Sila, 2025

1 in 89,600

Sila over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sila: meaning, origin, and history

From Ancient Greek Σίλας; literal meaning unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Sila means

Sila is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Sila is used in Italian.

Sila comes through Ancient Greek Σίλας.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Italian, Sila is pronounced /ˈsi.la/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 510 girls were recorded with the name Sila between 1985 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 43 in 2018; its best national rank was #3,609 in 2018.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #5,466 in 2020 to #3,963 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #6,003 in 2015 to #3,963 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Sila?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 89,600
37 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 43,400
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,963
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
62,106 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sila sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 62,106 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sila. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Silas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sila was born before 2018 — so the typical Sila is around 7 today.

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
47.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
97.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
510
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Choose a decade

2010s — 47.3% of all recorded uses (241).

Is Sila rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+1,621
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,503
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,040
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.68×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
86.0%
Peak was 2018 (43)
Years since peak
7
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
42.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,609
2018

Spellings of Sila

Sila is not the most common spelling — Lisa is, with 15.9% against Sila's <0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Sila is used

Across 1910–2025, Sila was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 474,622 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Florida1 in —
  3. 3Illinois1 in —
  4. 4Michigan1 in —
  5. 5New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Sila has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Sila around the world

Where Sila ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1997–2025
    #4,201
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2018–2018
    #809
    in 2018
  • Ireland
    2022–2022
    #905
    in 2022
  • France
    1990–2025
    #1,093
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2003–2024
    #2,256
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2009–2009
    #818
    in 2009

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Sila by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,963
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,503
Best rank ever
#3,609
2018
Peak year
2018
43 that year
First recorded
1985
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
510
Count in 2025
37

Names similar to Sila

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Sila

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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