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Sylvester

Pronounced /sɪlˈvɛstɚ/

Rank in 2024
#2,095
Born in 2024
71
Peak year
1920 · #174
Origin
Latin

1880 to 2024

Uncommon
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 71 boys were named Sylvester, about 1 in every 24,159.
  • It peaked in 1920 with 807 babies, ranked #174.
  • It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
  • 43,165 boys have been named Sylvester since 1880.

Who else has this name

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

  1. 0.7
    Greatest
  2. 0.5
    Silent
  3. 0.3
    Boomers
  4. 0.1
    Gen X
  5. <0.1
    Millennials
  6. <0.1
    Gen Z
  7. <0.1
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 12,324 babies, 0.74 per 1,000. Silent: 9,347 babies, 0.45 per 1,000. Boomers: 10,823 babies, 0.29 per 1,000. Gen X: 4,005 babies, 0.15 per 1,000. Millennials: 2,753 babies, 0.09 per 1,000. Gen Z: 1,188 babies, 0.04 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 827 babies, 0.04 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

Borrowed from Latin sylvester (“woody, rural”) from silva (“wood”); name of a saint whose feast day falls on December 31.

  • A male given name from Latin used in English since the sixteenth century.
Origin
Latin
Say it
/sɪlˈvɛstɚ/

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