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“Variant of Silas — Asked for; borrowed” — Aramaic/Hebrew origin
Boy's name · #440 in the US (2025) · Trending
Sylas is climbing: on the charts since 1975, it reached #440 in 2025 — its strongest showing yet, with about 720 boys given the name last year. Roughly 8,900 have carried it all-time. Sylas is the less common spelling of Silas — about 13% of babies given the name are written this way; Silas itself ranked #71 in 2025.
Around the world: about 1 in 5,100 boys in Canada (2024) · about 1 in 15,000 boys in France (2025).
Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 43 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.
Similar names: Silas · Azariah · Shiloh · Musa · Boaz · Mathias
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