Sylis
- #2,230 for boys in 2025, 63 births
- Peak · boys
- 2013 · 84 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,043since 1998
Sylis over time
Rank among boys' names. Sylis has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,230 | 63 |
| 2024 | #3,216 | 37 |
| 2023 | #3,416 | 34 |
| 2022 | #2,962 | 42 |
| 2021 | #2,652 | 48 |
| 2020 | #3,025 | 38 |
| 2019 | #3,259 | 35 |
| 2018 | #3,055 | 38 |
| 2017 | #2,295 | 57 |
| 2016 | #1,959 | 74 |
| 2015 | #2,212 | 61 |
| 2014 | #2,098 | 66 |
| 2013 | #1,733 | 84 |
| 2012 | #2,104 | 64 |
| 2011 | #2,145 | 61 |
| 2010 | #2,287 | 56 |
| 2009 | #2,753 | 44 |
| 2008 | #2,684 | 46 |
| 2007 | #3,591 | 29 |
| 2006 | #4,675 | 19 |
| 2005 | #11,472 | 5 |
| 2004 | #6,976 | 10 |
| 2003 | #5,877 | 12 |
| 2002 | #7,643 | 8 |
| 2001 | #8,339 | 7 |
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| 1998 | #9,631 | 5 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Sylis! It came in at #9,631, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1998–2000, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Sylis is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
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- 501+
- Not published
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- Pennsylvania#1,231 · 1 in 10,452
- Georgia#1,350 · 1 in 10,044
- Texas#1,555 · 1 in 15,914
Best ever in a state: #482 in Arkansas, 2017.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Pennsylvania | #1,231 | 5 | 1 in 10,452 |
| Georgia | #1,350 | 5 | 1 in 10,044 |
| Texas | #1,555 | 11 | 1 in 15,914 |
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See more about Sylis
- 795 spots since 2020 (#3,025 → #2,230)
- 18 spots since 2015 (#2,212 → #2,230)
- Debuted 1998
- Peaked 2013 at #1,733 (84 births)
- Births halved by 2018, 5 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 22,519 boys born in 2013 were named Sylis (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 27,112 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 57.1% of all boys named Sylis (596) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 5 | #9,631 (1998) | #9,631 |
| 2000s | 180 | #2,684 (2008) | #6,001 |
| 2010s | 596 | #1,733 (2013) | #2,315 |
| 2020s | 262 | #2,230 (2025) | #2,917 |
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.
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