Silas
The 2025 national count puts Silas at #71, and more parents pick it every year. An old entry (1880) having its biggest moment now, with 75,465 American bearers across the record.
What Silas carries
Silas · Latin
“living in a wood”
Source: Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), see our sources.
Silas’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Silas, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Silas since 1880
Silas is at its all-time peak right now: #71 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Silas is most common
Silas is most common in Maine: 0.81% of the state's recorded boys' names in 2025. West Virginia (0.76%) and Montana (0.74%) follow.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Silas
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Stella
#52 in 2025 · Latin
Claire
#68 in 2025 · Latin
August
#81 in 2025 · Latin
Lucia
#83 in 2025 · Latin
Luka
#85 in 2025 · Latin
Elian
#147 in 2025 · Latin
Luke
#33 in 2025 · Latin
Felix
#175 in 2025 · Latin
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About Silas
How common is Silas today?
The 2025 national count puts Silas at #71, and more parents pick it every year. The full curve since 1880 is above, public federal data, redrawn, never estimated.
What is the recorded meaning of Silas?
“living in a wood” is the meaning our source sets down, of Latin origin (Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884)).
Which names sit near Silas?
Nearest by the published recipe: Stella, Claire and August. The sibling matcher scores every common American name against the ones you already have.
Get Silas’s free Name Kit
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