Silas Boy Name

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The name Silas is of Greek origin, and is a diminutive form of Silvanus. The table below indicates the number of times the name Silas has been given to baby boys in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby boys in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Silas**
Use of the Name Silas for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
16,417	7,625	5,504	3,610	2,436	1,157	603

The table below indicates the number of times the name Silas has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to boys or girls, respectively, during the specified year.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Silas**
	Used as a Boy Name		Used as a Girl Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1880	141	98
1881	166	73
1882	149	92
1883	162	77
1884	170	83
1885	180	73
1886	179	77
1887	192	64
1888	208	71
1889	196	67
1890	168	84
1891	207	58
1892	179	89
1893	226	57
1894	230	56
1895	210	68
1896	228	63
1897	241	53
1898	261	48
1899	226	55
1900	249	68
1901	289	37
1902	251	55
1903	269	48
1904	270	51
1905	309	43
1906	272	53
1907	321	45
1908	328	47
1909	287	62
1910	310	65
1911	362	59
1912	371	108
1913	377	125
1914	359	173
1915	384	196
1916	403	191
1917	390	207
1918	396	228
1919	413	201
1920	399	220
1921	409	221
1922	414	212
1923	423	205
1924	419	213
1925	404	220
1926	413	214
1927	458	180
1928	468	169
1929	449	175
1930	430	189
1931	437	167
1932	457	155
1933	466	144
1934	482	141
1935	477	141
1936	465	147
1937	555	111
1938	482	144
1939	489	140
1940	541	118
1941	549	118
1942	510	145
1943	540	136
1944	575	114
1945	556	117
1946	539	140
1947	594	132
1948	628	117
1949	576	136
1950	636	119
1951	721	93
1952	693	102
1953	678	111
1954	666	118
1955	772	89
1956	735	100
1957	704	115
1958	732	103
1959	781	97
1960	870	77
1961	819	87
1962	860	78
1963	779	97
1964	912	70
1965	784	90
1966	858	72
1967
1968	924	62
1969	948	66
1970	995	67
1971	952	74
1972	945	73
1973	823	94
1974	891	83
1975	790	111
1976	838	100
1977	889	92
1978	805	112
1979	823	112
1980	825	114
1981	758	132
1982	834	114
1983	792	122
1984	867	103
1985	835	116
1986	846	115
1987	850	121
1988	880	117
1989	945	117
1990	967	117
1991	913	133
1992	817	165
1993	852	155
1994	871	153
1995	754	204
1996	740	207
1997	703	226
1998	679	251
1999	629	286
2000	600	328
2001	560	373
2002	431	578
2003	454	554
2004	427	603
Totals:		16,417		0

During the last 125 years, parents have used Silas as a boy's name nearly 100% of the time and hardly ever as a girl's name. Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are slightly lower than actual counts because the name Silas appears in the top 1,000 boy names only 124 times during the last 125 years.

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