girls:
20.9k births since 1884
#1003 (82nd percentile)
boys:
51 births since 1966
#4535 (1st percentile)
overall:
20.9k births since 1884
#1767 (77th percentile)
The name Silvia is the #1,767 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 20,928 recorded births since 1884. This represents the 77.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 77.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,003 (82.5% percentile) for all time with 20,877 births since 1884. For boys, it ranks #4,535 (1.0% percentile) for all time with 51 births since 1966.
Silvia first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1884 (1884 for girls and 1966 for boys). Birth data for Silvia is available in 136 out of the 140 years between 1884 and 2023 (136 years for girls and 8 years for boys). 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.
The name Silvia has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.8% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Silvia reached its peak popularity in 1974, achieving the 41.3% percentile (ranked #438) with 227 births per million. The name was most common in 1974, with 227 births per million (ranked 41.3% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2019, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Silvia ranks #790 for girls (16.6% percentile) with 93 births per million, which is 40.7% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Silvia reached its peak popularity in 1985, achieving the 1.2% percentile (ranked #687) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1985, with 7 births per million (ranked 1.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1994.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Silvia".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Silvia. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 90.2% confident that Silvia is pronounced as SIHL-vee-uh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is SIHL-vyuh, at 9.8% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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