girls:
161 births since 1924
#5555 (3rd percentile)
boys:
66.6k births since 1880
#409 (91st percentile)
overall:
66.8k births since 1880
#895 (88th percentile)
The name Silas is the #895 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 66,775 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 88.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 88.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #409 (91.1% percentile) for all time with 66,614 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,555 (2.8% percentile) for all time with 161 births since 1924.
Silas has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1924 for girls).
The name Silas has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.8% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Silas reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 91.4% percentile (ranked #79) with 2,223 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 2,223 births per million (ranked 91.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 1990, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Silas is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #79 (91.4% percentile) with 2,223 births per million.
For girls, Silas reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 1.6% percentile (ranked #943) with 11 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 11 births per million (ranked 1.6% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2014, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Silas ranks #934 for girls (1.4% percentile) with 10 births per million, which is 92.3% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Silas".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Silas. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 87.5% confident that Silas is pronounced as SAI-luhs, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is SEE-luhs, at 12.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like S AY1 L AH0 S) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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