Silas

4,352 people in the United States were counted with the surname Silas in the 2020 census, making it the 7,385th most common in the country. That is about one person in 68,700.

By the numbers

People: 4,352
Rank: 7,385th
How common: 1 in 68,700
Per 100,000: 1.5

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Silas described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Black, not Hispanic 58.6%
White, not Hispanic 21.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 8.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.1%
Hispanic or Latino 4.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.6%

Notable people called Silas

Paulo Silas (born 1965)Brazilian association football player
Paul Silas (1943–2022)American basketball player and coach
Stephen Silas (born 1973)American basketball coach
James Silas (born 1949)American basketball player

People named Silas with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Silas

Also a first name

Silas has been given to 75,649 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 2025. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.