Sylah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- SY-luh
- Origin
- Modern
- US rank, 2025
- #8,360 for girls
Sylah is a girls' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 8,360th for girls in the US (12 babies).
Where does Sylah come from?
Modern: spelling of Syla; modern coinage, perhaps a variant of Sila or a short form of Sylvia
Meaning borrowed from Syla.
Is Sylah a girl's or a boy's name?
Sylah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 12 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Sylah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 8,360th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 12 about 1 in 130,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 12 girls in the US were named Sylah, making it the 8,360th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,948th. Its busiest year was 2024, with 13 girls. It first appears in the records in 2008.
Half of all the girls named Sylah in the US since 1880 were born between 2016 and 2024, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 48 girls in the US were given Sylah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #2,626, up from #8,360 for this spelling alone.
Sylah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,360 |
| 2024 | 13 | #7,962 |
| 2023 | 10 | #9,611 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,050 |
| 2021 | 11 | #8,973 |
| 2020 | 11 | #8,948 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 8 | #11,776 |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 5 | #16,542 |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 5 | #16,756 |
| 2010 | 5 | #16,985 |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 5 | #17,498 |
Names like Sylah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Zaliyah, Zaniyah, Azylah, Nusaybah, Aziyah, Safa, Zayla, Zalayah, Alaiyah, Sayla, Zhamira, Salem
Other spellings of Sylah
Names related to Sylah
More Modern names
Jayden, Ailany, Myla, Kayden, Nevaeh, Jax, Indie, Miley, Raelynn, Kaiden, Kehlani, Alayna, Caden, Zayden, Wrenley, Mya
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, “Sylah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/sylah, updated 20 October 2026.