Sylas

What Sylas means

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

Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #440 vs #2,133 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Sylas?

US: Rising: up from #611 in 2015. England & Wales: New in the last 10 years.

Biggest US share so far: 2025, when 717 boys got the name (#440 that year). First in the US records in 1975.

How common

• About 1 in 2,382 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 24,721 baby boys in England and Wales 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 SD (2.34 per 1,000 boys), ID (1.62 per 1,000 boys), MT (1.33 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

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

US vs UK

Sylas is #440 in the US and #2133 in England & Wales (2025).

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

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 98.0% of US babies named Sylas were boys.

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

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Silas4,639 US · 66 E&W
• Sylus66 US
• Cylas65 US
• Sylis63 US
• Cylus32 US
• Zylus23 US
• Cylis15 US
• Xylus11 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.

If you like Sylas

Boys

• Hudson#17Editor’s note Up from #65 in 2015 to #17 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 200 US boys in the 2025 records
• Judah#178Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #178 vs #404 in 2025
• Micah#90“who is like Yahweh”^*
• Atticus#281“the Attic, the Athenian, a cognomen”^*
• Asher#28Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #28 vs #150 in 2025
• Easton#110“east + settlement”^*

For a sister

• Naomi#47“my pleasantness”^*
• Adelaide#289“noble + nature, character”^*
• Lilah#179Editor’s note Up from #314 in 2015 to #179 in 2025 in the US
• Lucy#24“light”^*
• Camila#19Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #19 vs #1,051 in 2025
• Valentina#35Same root as Valentine, meaning “strong, healthy”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Sylas’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.