Sila Girl
How popular is Sila?
#3,902 girl name in 2025
37 baby girls were named Sila in the US in 2025, making it the 3902nd most popular girl name.
Sila popularity over time
| Rank in 2025 | #3,902 for girls (▲ 1538 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 37 girls |
| 10-year trend | Rising fast (+68% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #5,831 in 2015, #5,310 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2018 (43 girls) |
| Highest rank | #3,558 in 2018 |
| First recorded | 1985 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.0% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Sila counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Sila family of names ranked #1,773 for girls in 2025 (#2,043 the year before), with 82 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Sila | 37 | 45% |
| Syla | 27 | 33% |
| Sylah | 12 | 15% |
| Silah | 6 | 7% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Sila is most popular
Babies named Sila per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Michigan: 0.1 per 1,000 (18 girls)
- Illinois: 0.1 per 1,000 (16 girls)
- New York: 0.0 per 1,000 (14 girls)
- California: 0.0 per 1,000 (11 girls)
Sila by decade
Girl names about as popular as Sila
Questions
- Is Sila a boy or girl name?
- Sila is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Sila were girls.
- How popular is the name Sila?
- 37 baby girls were named Sila in the US in 2025, making it the 3902nd most popular girl name.
- When was Sila most popular?
- Sila peaked in 2018, when 43 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #3,558 in 2018.
- How many people are named Sila?
- 510 babies have been named Sila in the US since 1880. We estimate about 507 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 8.
- Where is Sila most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Sila was most common in Michigan, at 0.1 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.