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Cylis

Boy · SY-lis · Modern

Cylis is a boys' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 5,859th for boys in the US (15 babies).

Where does Cylis come from?

Modern: probably a respelling of Silas

Say it
SY-lis

Is Cylis a girl's or a boy's name?

Cylis is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 15 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.

How popular is Cylis in the US?

Rank in 2025
#5,859among boys
Babies in 2025
15about 1 in 110,000 boys
Five-year trend
Steadyup 5% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 15 boys in the US were named Cylis, making it the 5,859th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,029th. Its busiest year was 2011, with 42 boys. It first appears in the records in 1999.

Half of all the boys named Cylis in the US since 1880 were born between 2010 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 5,607 boys in the US were given Cylis or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #62, up from #5,859 for this spelling alone.

1999Busiest: 42 in 20112025
Cylis in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
202515#5,859
202412#6,827
202318#5,250
202222#4,566
202114#6,027
202011#7,029
201912#6,772
201820#4,735
201715#5,784
201618#5,120
201532#3,430
201441#2,845
201342#2,761
201231#3,447
201142#2,797
201030#3,530
200924#4,158
200817#5,244
20079#8,169
20065#12,048
200510#7,089
20045#11,348
20038#7,824
20027#8,449
20010–
20000–
19995#9,905

Names like Cylis

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Other spellings of Cylis

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