Silas

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Silas is ranked 81st among boys in 2024 (4,108 births). Its best rank was 81st, in 2023–2024.

Rank in 2024: #81same as 2023
Births in 2024: 4,1080.24% of boys
Peak year: 20244,108 births
Best rank: #81first in 2023
Since 1880: 70,772people given the name

Babies named Silas, by year of birthboys

The story in the numbers

70,772 boys have been named Silas in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2024, with 4,108 births — 0.24% of all boys recorded that year.

It has never been more used than now: its record year is 2024, within the last few years of data.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2015, and the 2010s alone account for 42%. It has spent 144 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 5 of them in the top 100.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	boys named Silas
1880s	775
1890s	631
1900s	509
1910s	1,553
1920s	2,031
1930s	1,482
1940s	1,276
1950s	1,050
1960s	753
1970s	922
1980s	1,175
1990s	1,906
2000s	7,308
2010s	29,617
2020s	19,784

In 2024, its biggest year

Silas was the 81st most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2024 were Liam, Noah, Oliver, Theodore and James. See all of 2024.

Names that rose and fell with Silas

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

Other spellings in the data

Sylas8,160 ever

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.