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How popular is the name Silas?
Births per year, rank history and how many Silases are alive today.
Silas (male) is an uncommon boys' name in England and Wales, ranked 585th in 2025 with 66 babies given the name. The name peaked in 2024, when 85 babies were given the name, the 468th most popular that year. Numbers have been rising in recent years.
The Silas you are most likely to meet is around 2 years old. Half of all Silases born in England and Wales are between 5 and 22, and there are at least 1,100 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 males, there's less than a 1% chance that anyone will be called Silas - on average, only one in every 276 such rooms contains a Silas.
How many babies are named Silas each year?
Where does Silas rank among boys' names?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Silas most popular?
Silas peaked in 2024, when 85 babies in England and Wales were given the name.
How many people are called Silas?
At least 1,100 people named Silas born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Silas?
Most living Silases are between 5 and 22; the most common age is about 2.
Is Silas becoming more or less popular?
Rising: numbers have been climbing in recent years.