Meaning not yet researched.
Sylar: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 12 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,716 in 2009.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,716 in 2009; #7,134 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Sylar in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#7,134 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2009, at #1,716.
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Sylar: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 12 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,716 in 2009 · most boys in one year: 91 (2009).
In 2025, 12 US boys were named Sylar, making it the 7,134th most common boys’ name of the year, up 563 places from #7,697 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 11 boys named Sylar in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,716, reached in 2009. That year also had the most boys given the name: 91. For comparison, it was #2,407 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Sylar in 20 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2006 with 9 babies. In all, 881 US babies have been given the name, 6.5% of them girls and 94% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 588 babies named Sylar.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 249 US boys were named Sylar; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 67. In 2025 that was about 1 in 142,340 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Zyler (1,455 babies since 1880) and Syler (801 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Sylar in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 12 | #7,134 |
| 2024 | — | — | 11 | #7,697 |
| 2023 | 5 | #17,348 | 10 | #8,184 |
| 2022 | — | — | 19 | #5,188 |
| 2021 | — | — | 11 | #7,514 |
| 2020 | 5 | #17,247 | 29 | #3,719 |
| 2019 | 5 | #17,687 | 23 | #4,463 |
| 2018 | — | — | 32 | #3,510 |
| 2017 | 6 | #15,721 | 35 | #3,304 |
| 2016 | 6 | #16,020 | 67 | #2,107 |
| 2015 | 6 | #16,213 | 54 | #2,407 |
| 2014 | 6 | #16,294 | 69 | #2,060 |
| 2013 | — | — | 67 | #2,041 |
| 2012 | 5 | #19,235 | 69 | #2,032 |
| 2011 | 7 | #14,677 | 55 | #2,336 |
| 2010 | — | — | 76 | #1,896 |
| 2009 | — | — | 91 | #1,716 |
| 2008 | — | — | 47 | #2,671 |
| 2007 | 6 | #17,381 | 38 | #3,077 |
| 2006 | — | — | 9 | #8,637 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).