Sylvesta
The girl's name Sylvesta has been in the national records since 1903, with 71 births to its name. It is given to both boys and girls. It has not appeared in the national data since 1936. About 2 Sylvestas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 95.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Sylvesta boys named Sylvesta
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 71
- Estimated living today
- 2
- Median age today
- 95
- Peak year
- 1903
- Best rank
- 1,440th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1903
- Girls / boys
- 45 / 26
How old the living Sylvestas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 71 babies given the name since 1903, about 2 are alive — 3 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1930 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.
Names of 1903
The most popular girls’ names the year Sylvesta peaked:
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Sylvesta against another name
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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.