Sylas
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Sylas is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Rare non-standard spelling of Silas.
- USUnited States1 in 71K(measured from records)
- ISIceland1 in 351K
- BRBrazil1 in 753K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 142 (measured from records)
- 1 in 71K (inferred from the name graph)
4,665 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Rare non-standard spelling of Silas.
Sources 1
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sylas counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 4,665 | 1 in 71K | 4.6K | Sylas | 142 |
| BR Brazil | 281 | 1 in 753K | 281 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | 14 | 1 in 1.2M | 14 | — | 2 |
| PL Poland | 5 | 1 in 7.7M | 5 | — | — |
| IS Iceland | 1 | 1 in 351K | 1 | — | — |
4,665 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 26 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 4.6K | #4,124 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 717 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2023 | 662 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2024 | 637 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2022 | 627 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2021 | 551 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2013 | 508 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 281 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 277 | #19,968 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 156 | #13,913 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 70 | #42,462 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 45 | #4,124 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Sylas a male or female name?
- Sylas is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Sylas mean, and where does it come from?
- Rare non-standard spelling of Silas. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Sylas have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 4.7 thousand people named Sylas, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sylas.
- Where is Sylas most common?
- Sylas is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 71 thousand people carrying it.
- What are other forms of the name Sylas?
- In the etymology graph, Sylvain, Silas and Sylvanus are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Sylas?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,665 people named Sylas in 2020, about 1 in 71 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Sylas?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sylasThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), and bulk access is licensed separately.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Sylas”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.