Sylus

#2,167 for boys in 2025, 66 births

Peak · boys
2013 · 84 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
1,244
since 1998

Sylus over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Sylus has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201998peak #1,733, 2013boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
Yearboys
rankbirths
2025#2,16766
2024#2,63750
2023#2,61450
2022#2,51754
2021#2,91842
2020#2,11366
2019#2,58250
2018#2,28259
2017#2,45052
2016#2,02870
2015#2,18962
2014#1,82881
2013#1,73384
2012#1,92374
2011#1,88674
2010#2,01068
2009#2,40153
2008#2,78843
2007#2,97439
2006#4,00124
2005#4,46419
2004#6,13812
2003#5,27114
2002#5,72512
2001#6,9359
2000#9,1126
1999#8,7046
1998#9,6315
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First appearance
1998

The first year at least five boys were named Sylus! It came in at #9,631, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1998–2000, when fewer than 7 boys a year got the name.

Where Sylus is popular in 1998

No state had 5 or more boys named Sylus in 1998, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Sylus
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 470 spots since 2024 (#2,637 → #2,167)
  • 54 spots since 2020 (#2,113 → #2,167)
  • 22 spots since 2015 (#2,189 → #2,167)
Rise & fade · boys
15 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1998
  • Peaked 2013 at #1,733 (84 births)
  • Births halved by 2021, 8 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 22,519
  • Highest: 1 in 22,519 boys born in 2013 were named Sylus (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 25,880 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 2010s
  • 54.2% of all boys named Sylus (674) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1990s11#8,704 (1999)#9,168
2000s231#2,401 (2009)#4,981
2010s674#1,733 (2013)#2,091
2020s328#2,113 (2020)#2,494

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.

Sylus in 1998

boys
#9,631
5 births · 1 in 382,273 boys

Top boys' names in 1998

  1. #1Michael36,618
  2. #2Jacob36,031
  3. #3Matthew31,146
  4. #4Joshua28,095
  5. #5Christopher27,007
  6. #6Nicholas26,632
  7. #7Brandon23,832
  8. #8Tyler23,712
  9. #9Andrew23,664
  10. #10Austin23,478
  11. #9,631Sylus5
More about 1998

boys

1,911,366 boys got a published name in 1998; 1 in 382,273 of them was named Sylus, which outranked 14.9% of the 11,311 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 14.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Sylus
  1. #8,479Zerik6
  2. #8,479Zhaire6
  3. #8,479Zymir6
  4. #9,631Sylus5
  5. #9,631Aadil5
  6. #9,631Aaliyah5
  7. #9,631Aaronmichael5

Tied with 1,680 names at #9,631; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1997
Risers
  1. ↑ 1,736Tyrese#2,347 → #611
  2. ↑ 805Zion#1,499 → #694
  3. ↑ 785Mekhi#1,706 → #921
  4. ↑ 743Tyriq#1,519 → #776
  5. ↑ 741Tavian#1,599 → #858
Fallers
  1. ↓ 429Coty#918 → #1,347
  2. ↓ 367Anfernee#838 → #1,205
  3. ↓ 326Jessy#962 → #1,288
  4. ↓ 295Mickey#966 → #1,261
  5. ↓ 280Mikal#1,000 → #1,280

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1998 →