girls:
546 births since 1881
#5170 (10th percentile)
overall:
546 births since 1881
#7193 (7th percentile)
The name Sylvania is the #7,193 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 546 recorded births since 1881. This represents the 7.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 7.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,170 (9.5% percentile) for all time with 546 births since 1881.
Sylvania first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1881 (first recorded for girls in 1881). Birth data for Sylvania is available in 72 out of the 109 years between 1881 and 1989. 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 girls, Sylvania reached its peak popularity in 1915, achieving the 2.3% percentile (ranked #546) with 18 births per million. The name was most common in 1881, with 61 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1989.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Sylvania".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Sylvania. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 81.3% confident that Sylvania is pronounced as sihl-VAY-nee-uh, which has 4 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is SIHL-VAY-nyuh, at 9.4% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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