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Siler

Gender
Boy
Say it
SY-ler
Origin
Germanic
US rank, 2025
#8,239 for boys

Siler is a boys' name of Germanic origin. In 2025 it ranked 8,239th for boys in the US (9 babies).

What does Siler mean?

Germanic: probably an American form of German Seiler

Probably an American form of the German surname Seiler, 'rope maker'.

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

Siler is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 9 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.

How popular is Siler in the US?

Rank in 2025
8,239th among boys
Babies in 2025
9 about 1 in 190,000 boys
Five-year trend
Too rare to call too few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 9 boys in the US were named Siler, making it the 8,239th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 9,548th. Its busiest year was 2008, with 11 boys. It first appears in the records in 2000.

2025 had more boys named Siler than any year since 2019.

Half of all the boys named Siler in the US since 1880 were born between 2008 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.

2000Busiest: 11 in 20082025
Siler in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
20259#8,239
20246#10,930
20230–
20226#10,855
20217#9,709
20207#9,548
201910#7,638
20185#12,150
20170–
201610#7,600
201511#7,061
201411#7,043
201311#7,021
20129#8,152
201110#7,495
20105#12,224
20096#10,989
200811#7,182
20077#9,782
20067#9,579
20050–
20046#9,941
20036#9,574
20027#8,449
20010–
20006#9,104

Names like Siler

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

Names related to Siler

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Sources

Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Siler: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/siler, updated 20 October 2026.