Sylar
Last seen for girls in 2023 at #15,194 · #6,803 for boys in 2025, 12 births
Given to boys 93.5% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2009 · 91 births
- Debut · boys
- 9 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 824since 2006
Sylar over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #6,803 | 12 | |
| 2024 | — | #7,257 | 11 | |
| 2023 | #15,194 | 5 | #7,738 | 10 |
| 2022 | — | #5,019 | 19 | |
| 2021 | — | #7,089 | 11 | |
| 2020 | #15,088 | 5 | #3,653 | 29 |
| 2019 | #15,539 | 5 | #4,337 | 23 |
| 2018 | — | #3,446 | 32 | |
| 2017 | #14,124 | 6 | #3,249 | 35 |
| 2016 | #14,331 | 6 | #2,086 | 67 |
| 2015 | #14,482 | 6 | #2,386 | 54 |
| 2014 | #14,558 | 6 | #2,044 | 69 |
| 2013 | — | #2,021 | 67 | |
| 2012 | #16,869 | 5 | #2,016 | 69 |
| 2011 | #13,347 | 7 | #2,317 | 55 |
| 2010 | — | #1,881 | 76 | |
| 2009 | — | #1,708 | 91 | |
| 2008 | — | #2,632 | 47 | |
| 2007 | #15,491 | 6 | #3,025 | 38 |
| 2006 | — | #7,998 | 9 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Sylar! It came in at #7,998, and was given to 9 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 2006, when fewer than 10 boys a year got the name.
Where Sylar is popular in 2016
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Washington#847 · 1 in 6,173
- Pennsylvania#1,039 · 1 in 9,872
- Ohio#1,200 · 1 in 11,864
- Texas#2,389 · 1 in 37,043
- California#2,550 · 1 in 44,737
Best ever in a state: #700 in Tennessee, 2012.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Washington | #847 | 6 | 1 in 6,173 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,039 | 6 | 1 in 9,872 |
| Ohio | #1,200 | 5 | 1 in 11,864 |
| Texas | #2,389 | 5 | 1 in 37,043 |
| California | #2,550 | 5 | 1 in 44,737 |
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See more about Sylar
- 454 spots since 2024 (#7,257 → #6,803)
- 3,150 spots since 2020 (#3,653 → #6,803)
- 4,417 spots since 2015 (#2,386 → #6,803)
- Debuted 2006
- Peaked 2009 at #1,708 (91 births)
- Births halved by 2017, 8 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 21,798 boys born in 2009 were named Sylar (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 142,340 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 66.4% of all boys named Sylar (547) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 185 | #1,708 (2009) | #3,841 |
| 2010s | 547 | #1,881 (2010) | #2,578 |
| 2020s | 92 | #3,653 (2020) | #6,260 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Sylar in 2016
Top girls' names in 2016
Top boys' names in 2016
More about 2016
girls
1,772,022 girls got a published name in 2016; 1 in 295,337 of them was named Sylar, which outranked 24.1% of the 18,885 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #12,876Zyair7
- #12,876Zyairah7
- #12,876Zyanah7
- #14,331Sylar6
- #14,331Aafiya6
- #14,331Aailyah6
- #14,331Aalina6
- #16,215Aadriti5
- #16,215Aafiyah5
- #16,215Aaishah5
Tied with 1,883 names at #14,331; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,897,738 boys got a published name in 2016; 1 in 28,324 of them was named Sylar, which outranked 85.3% of the 14,207 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,066Tim68
- #2,066Waylen68
- #2,066Yisrael68
- #2,086Sylar67
- #2,086Abhinav67
- #2,086Arik67
- #2,086Arion67
- #2,110Adnan66
- #2,110Amere66
- #2,110Ammon66
Tied with 23 names at #2,086; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.