Sylah

#8,808 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning not yet documented

Sylah has been given to 96 babies in the U.S. since 2008. In 2025 it ranked #8,808 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 13 recorded.

Babies named Sylah, 2025

1 in 276,000

Sylah over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05101518801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

How common is Sylah?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 276,000
12 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 134,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#8,808
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
191,493 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sylah 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 191,493 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sylah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sylahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sylah was born before 2021 — so the typical Sylah is around 4 today.

Median birth year
2021
About 4 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
70.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
96
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Choose a decade

2020s — 70.8% of all recorded uses (68).

Is Sylah 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
−435
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+659
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
92.3%
Peak was 2024 (13)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
7.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#8,373
2024

Spellings of Sylah

Sylah is not the most common spelling — Sarah is, with 68.2% against Sylah'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.

Sylah by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#8,808
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 659
Best rank ever
#8,373
2024
Peak year
2024
13 that year
First recorded
2008
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
96
Count in 2025
12

Names similar to Sylah

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

Sibling names for Sylah

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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