Silvia
The girl's name Silvia has been in the national records since 1884, with 21,323 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 1,235th. About 19,000 Silvias are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 39.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Silvia boys named Silvia
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 21,323
- Estimated living today
- 19,000
- Median age today
- 39
- Peak year
- 1991
- Best rank
- 602nd
- Rank in 2025
- 1,235th
- First recorded
- 1884
- Girls / boys
- 21,272 / 51
How old the living Silvias are
born that year still alive today
Of the 21,323 babies given the name since 1884, about 19,000 are alive — 88 in every hundred. Roughly 3,200 of them are children and 2,200 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1986 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Latin
Feminine form of Silvius. In myths, Rhea Silvia was the mother of famous twins Romulus and Remus, the founders of Rome. 6th-century saint Silvia was the mother of the pope Gregory the Great.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Silvias
- Queen Silvia of Sweden (born 1943)queen consort of Sweden
- Silvia Saint (born 1976)Czech pornographic actress
- Silvia Federici (born 1942)Italian American scholar, teacher, and feminist activist
- Silvia Navarro (born 1978)Mexican actress
- Silvia Neid (born 1964)German football player and manager
- Sílvia Soler Espinosa (born 1987)Spanish tennis player
- Silvia Colloca (born 1977)Italian singer, actress, author and TV cooking personality
- Silvia Cartwright (born 1943)New Zealand viceroy, jurist
People named Silvia with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Silvia is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Silvia is most concentrated in California (4.4×), Texas (2.9×), Arizona (1.8×), Florida (1.3×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1991
The most popular girls’ names the year Silvia peaked:
Silvia elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Italy girls | Silvia | 26,054 | — |
| Spain girls | Silvia | 11,452 | 33rd |
| France girls | Silvia | 2,230 | 301st |
| Austria girls | Silvia | 1,326 | 42nd |
| Norway girls | Silvia | 493 | 165th |
| England and Wales girls | Silvia | 352 | 1,449th |
| Belgium girls | Silvia | 66 | 743rd |
| Poland girls | Silvia | 51 birth registrations | 274th |
| Ireland girls | Silvia | 19 | 677th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Silvia: rank by region
In 2018, Silvia was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brussels | Silvia | 300 | 5 |
In 2023, Silvia was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Silvia | 8 | 1 |
In 2018, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Silvia appears in the lists for Brussels-Capital Region (300th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Silvia among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands girls | Silvia | 6,070 | 7,367 |
| Finland girls | Silvia | 596 | 1,346 |
| the Netherlands boys | Silvia | — | 68 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Silvia lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 120,455 women called Silvia were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barcelona | Silvia | 21,673 | 7.121 | 15 |
| Girona | Silvia | 2,857 | 6.900 | 14 |
| Zaragoza | Silvia | 3,183 | 6.264 | 25 |
| Valladolid | Silvia | 1,674 | 6.171 | 29 |
| Tarragona | Silvia | 2,645 | 6.050 | 26 |
| Lleida | Silvia | 1,341 | 6.019 | 23 |
Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Silvia against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.