Silas

What Silas means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Silas yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #71 vs #585 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Silas?

US: Rising: up from #128 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #950 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2025, when 4,639 boys got the name (#71 that year). First in the US records in 1880.

How common

• About 1 in 368 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 4,120 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 4,910 baby boys in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in ME (8.06 per 1,000 boys), WV (7.63 per 1,000 boys), MT (7.44 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Silas is #71 in the US and #585 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.8% of US babies named Silas were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Sylas717 US · 11 E&W
• Sylus66 US
• Cylas65 US
• Sylis63 US
• Silus10 US
• Zylas7 US
• Solis7 US
• Xylas6 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

Nicknames

• Sy
• Si

Listed on Wiktionary under “pet forms”.

If you like Silas

Boys

• Asher#28Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #28 vs #150 in 2025
• Judah#178Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #178 vs #404 in 2025
• Gideon#337Editor’s note Down from #327 in 2015 to #337 in 2025 in the US
• Asa#483“physician, doctor, healer”^*
• Matthias#372From Biblical Hebrew, meaning “gift of Yahweh”^*
• Enoch#746Editor’s note Up from #784 in 2015 to #746 in 2025 in the US

For a sister

• Delilah#51Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #115 in 2015, #51 in 2025
• Naomi#47“my pleasantness”^*
• Ezra#833Editor’s note Up from #1,199 in 2015 to #833 in 2025 in the US
• Esther#119“star”^*
• Lydia#92“the region of Lydia”^*
• Sarai#424“master, chief”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Bible, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Silas’s. Rank is US 2025.