boys:
2.4k births since 1912
#2569 (44th percentile)
overall:
2.4k births since 1912
#5405 (30th percentile)
The name Silvestre is the #5,405 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,420 recorded births since 1912. This represents the 30.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 30.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,569 (44.0% percentile) for all time with 2,420 births since 1912.
Silvestre first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1912 (first recorded for boys in 1912). Birth data for Silvestre is available in 109 out of the 112 years between 1912 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For boys, Silvestre reached its peak popularity in 1994, achieving the 7.1% percentile (ranked #721) with 29 births per million. The name was most common in 1994, with 29 births per million (ranked 7.1% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2016, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Silvestre ranks #896 for boys (1.6% percentile) with 11 births per million, which is 37.1% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Silvestre".
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Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Silvestre. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 26.3% confident that Silvestre is pronounced as sihl-VEH-streh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is seel-VAY-stray, at 15.8% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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