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Sylas

#440 in 2025Boys' name

Variant of Silas

Sylas has been given to 8,966 babies in the U.S. since 1975. In 2025 it ranked #440 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 717 recorded.

Babies named Sylas, 2025

1 in 4,620

Sylas over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
020040060080018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sylas: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Silas

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Sylas means

Sylas is a variant of Silas.

Origin, language, and formation

Sylas is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Silas.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 8,889 boys were recorded with the name Sylas between 1975 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 717 in 2025; its best national rank was #440 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #587 in 2020 to #440 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #612 in 2015 to #440 in 2025.

In the United States, 77 girls were recorded with the name Sylas between 2011 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 15 in 2025; its best national rank was #7,449 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #14,903 in 2020 to #7,449 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 Sylas?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 4,620
717 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 2,380
0.04% of boys
Rank, 2025
#440
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
3,206 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sylas sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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 1002%
School of 50010%

Put another way: gather 3,206 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sylas. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sylass were born

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

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
45.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
97.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
8,889
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 45.2% of all recorded uses (4,020).

Is Sylas 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
+46
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+147
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+172
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.63×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (717)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#440
2025

Spellings of Sylas

Sylas is not the most common spelling — Dylan is, with 61.0% against Sylas's 1.3%.

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 Sylas is used

Across 2016–2025, Sylas was most concentrated in Idaho — about 1 in 1,163 boys, against 1 in 3,031 across all states with data. It was least common in New Hampshire (1 in 9,091).

1186 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Idaho1 in 1,163
  2. 2Kansas1 in 1,370
  3. 3West Virginia1 in 1,429
  4. 4Montana1 in 1,538
  5. 5Missouri1 in 1,639
  6. 6Indiana1 in 1,754
  7. 7Minnesota1 in 1,818
  8. 8Oregon1 in 1,852

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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.

Geographically, Sylas is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 29% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Sylas around the world

Where Sylas 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
    2010–2025
    #2,133
    in 2025
  • France
    2004–2025
    #1,589
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1998–2024
    #831
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2002–2013
    #754
    in 2013

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

Sylas in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Sylas. Linked forms have their own page here.

SilasSzilas

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Sylas by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#440
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 147
Best rank ever
#440
2025
Peak year
2025
717 that year
First recorded
1975
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
8,889
Count in 2025
717

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#7,449
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 7,454
Best rank ever
#7,449
2025
Peak year
2025
15 that year
First recorded
2011
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
77
Count in 2025
15

Names similar to Sylas

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

SylvanSylusSylisAtlasSylarSylerBlasSilasCylasNiklasNikolasNicklasDallasSylviaSylvesterSyllasSylvioNickolasNicolasSylvanusEulasMilasVilasSylo

Names with a curve like Sylas

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Sylas, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

TrippAyaanJasiahCallenMakaiKysonRoninLuccaRowenMemphisRayanCassius

Sibling names for Sylas

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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