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Sylvia
Rank in 2024
#361
Born in 2024
863
Peak year
1937 · #50
Origin
Latin
1880 to 2024
SteadyIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 863 girls were named Sylvia, about 1 in every 1,869.
- It peaked in 1937 with 4,371 babies, ranked #50.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 244,041 girls have been named Sylvia since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Sylvia per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 2.6Greatest1901–27
- 2.8Silent1928–45
- 2.0Boomers1946–64
- 1.0Gen X1965–80
- 0.5Millennials1981–96
- 0.3Gen Z1997–12
- 0.4Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 53,350 babies, 2.61 per 1,000. Silent: 58,876 babies, 2.85 per 1,000. Boomers: 72,480 babies, 2.02 per 1,000. Gen X: 24,937 babies, 0.98 per 1,000. Millennials: 13,141 babies, 0.47 per 1,000. Gen Z: 8,684 babies, 0.30 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 7,993 babies, 0.39 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
Feminine form of a Medieval form of Silvius, from Latin silva (“forest”). In myths, Rhea Silvia was the mother of famous twins Romulus and Remus, the founders of Rome. 6th-century saint Silvia was the mother of the pope Gregory the Great.
- A female given name from Latin, a popular spelling variant of Silvia.
- Origin
- Latin
- Say it
- Not recorded
From Wiktionary’s entry for Sylvia, CC BY-SA 4.0.