Sylva

girls:

883 births since 1886

#4833 (15th percentile)

boys:

18 births since 1918

#4568 (0th percentile)

overall:

901 births since 1886

#6838 (12th percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Sylva".

1886 2014 18862014

Key Statistics

Total Births
883
Peak Births
31
Peak Year
1919
First Recorded
1886
Peak Percentile
4.4%
Current Percentile
0.0%
Peak Rank
#260
Current Rank
#967
Female statistics
Total Births
18
Peak Births
7
Peak Year
1934
First Recorded
1918
Peak Percentile
0.4%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#526
Current Rank
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Sylva

Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Sylva. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 78.9% confident that Sylva is pronounced as SIHL-vuh. The next most likely pronunciation is SEEL-vuh, at 21.1% confidence.

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78.9%
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SIHL-vuh (2 syllables)
Verified
78.9% confidence
S IH1 L V AH0
SEEL-vuh (2 syllables)
21.1% confidence
S IY1 L V AH0

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Sylva. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Sylva, please vote using the thumbs up button.

SIHL-vee-uh (3 syllables)
9 names 266k births
S IH1 L V IY0 AH0
SIHL-vyuh (2 syllables)
4 names 265k births
S IH1 L V Y AH0

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like S IH1 L V AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.