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Silver

Pronounced /ˈsɪlvɚ/

Rank in 2024
#3,330
Born in 2024
47
Peak year
2023 · #3015
Origin
English

1880 to 2024

Uncommon
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 47 girls were named Silver, about 1 in every 34,323.
  • It peaked in 2023 with 55 babies, ranked #3015.
  • It first shows up in the records in 1915.
  • 1,703 girls have been named Silver since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Silver per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

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    Silent
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    Gen Z
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    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 72 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Silent: 121 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Boomers: 112 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Gen X: 95 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Millennials: 394 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Gen Z: 386 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 523 babies, 0.03 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

As a surname, anglicised from the German Jewish ornamental surname Silber.

  • A unisex given name from English from the metal, or transferred from the surname.
Origin
English
Say it
/ˈsɪlvɚ/

From Wiktionary’s entry for Silver, CC BY-SA 4.0.