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Silverio vs Silvio

American parents have registered 3,000 Silvios since 1880, against 1,805 Silverios. Silvio is still ahead, with 45 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Silverio against Silvio, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Silverio Silvio

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 119 years in which either name was published, Silvio for 73 years and Silverio for 46 years. The lead changed hands 28 times.

16 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

  Silverio Silvio
Total US births 1,8053,000
Most in one year 3586
Babies in 2025 1145
Estimated living today 1,3001,400
Median age today 3631
Peak year 20011922
Best rank 2,681st boys702nd boys
Rank in 2025 7,194th2,798th
First recorded 19111905
Girls / boys 0 / 1,8050 / 3,000

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Silverios alive today are over 36; half the Silvios are over 31. That is 5 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Silverio Silvio
France 701,575

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Silverio and Silvio.