Silvana
Silvana was given to 47 girls in 2025, #3,338 among girls’ names; 2,420 Americans have been recorded with it since 1950 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,320 Americans named Silvana and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 24 years old and half are between 13 and 48.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Silvana by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Silvana mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Silvana is “a female given name from Italian, Portuguese, or Spanish.”
From Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish Silvana, from Latin Silvāna.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Silvana?
#3,338 among girls’ names, 2025
Silvana fell from #2,923 in 2015 to #3,338 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 33.6 to 29.2 per million.
64 babies in 2007, the peak
Silvana peaked in 2007, when 64 girls were given it, #2,855 among girls’ names. The 47 births of 2025 are 73% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 47 | #3,338 | 29.2 |
| 2024 | 46 | #3,450 | 28.4 |
| 2023 | 55 | #3,042 | 34.3 |
| 2022 | 47 | #3,408 | 28.7 |
| 2021 | 43 | #3,605 | 26.2 |
| 2020 | 31 | #4,434 | 19.2 |
| 2019 | 48 | #3,323 | 28.6 |
| 2018 | 54 | #3,044 | 31.7 |
| 2017 | 63 | #2,738 | 36.5 |
| 2016 | 50 | #3,272 | 28.2 |
Every recorded year (75)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 60 | #2,923 | 33.6 |
| 2014 | 37 | #4,090 | 20.7 |
| 2013 | 35 | #4,227 | 19.9 |
| 2012 | 43 | #3,701 | 24.4 |
| 2011 | 50 | #3,300 | 28.4 |
| 2010 | 44 | #3,613 | 24.8 |
| 2009 | 51 | #3,293 | 27.8 |
| 2008 | 47 | #3,524 | 24.9 |
| 2007 | 64 | #2,855 | 33.3 |
| 2006 | 31 | #4,672 | 16.3 |
| 2005 | 62 | #2,723 | 33.6 |
| 2004 | 54 | #2,956 | 29.4 |
| 2003 | 54 | #2,873 | 29.6 |
| 2002 | 55 | #2,769 | 30.6 |
| 2001 | 24 | #4,983 | 13.3 |
| 2000 | 26 | #4,632 | 14.3 |
| 1999 | 26 | #4,423 | 14.7 |
| 1998 | 35 | #3,484 | 19.8 |
| 1997 | 24 | #4,490 | 13.8 |
| 1996 | 27 | #4,032 | 15.4 |
| 1995 | 28 | #3,862 | 15.9 |
| 1994 | 33 | #3,430 | 18.5 |
| 1993 | 30 | #3,663 | 16.6 |
| 1992 | 33 | #3,398 | 17.9 |
| 1991 | 25 | #4,184 | 13.3 |
| 1990 | 24 | #4,207 | 12.6 |
| 1989 | 21 | #4,494 | 11.4 |
| 1988 | 20 | #4,461 | 11.2 |
| 1987 | 25 | #3,609 | 14.4 |
| 1986 | 21 | #4,008 | 12.2 |
| 1985 | 15 | #5,045 | 8.7 |
| 1984 | 15 | #4,936 | 8.9 |
| 1983 | 18 | #4,260 | 10.8 |
| 1982 | 29 | #3,081 | 17.1 |
| 1981 | 24 | #3,521 | 14.4 |
| 1980 | 19 | #4,125 | 11.4 |
| 1979 | 27 | #3,136 | 16.8 |
| 1978 | 25 | #3,179 | 16.3 |
| 1977 | 24 | #3,251 | 15.7 |
| 1976 | 32 | #2,533 | 21.8 |
| 1975 | 21 | #3,386 | 14.4 |
| 1974 | 22 | #3,196 | 15.0 |
| 1973 | 26 | #2,737 | 17.8 |
| 1972 | 28 | #2,579 | 18.4 |
| 1971 | 29 | #2,588 | 17.4 |
| 1970 | 30 | #2,513 | 17.2 |
| 1969 | 22 | #2,900 | 13.0 |
| 1968 | 23 | #2,696 | 14.0 |
| 1967 | 30 | #2,203 | 18.2 |
| 1966 | 34 | #2,018 | 20.1 |
| 1965 | 35 | #1,983 | 19.8 |
| 1964 | 31 | #2,186 | 16.4 |
| 1963 | 22 | #2,684 | 11.4 |
| 1962 | 25 | #2,451 | 12.7 |
| 1961 | 27 | #2,348 | 13.4 |
| 1960 | 32 | #2,052 | 15.8 |
| 1959 | 30 | #2,102 | 14.8 |
| 1958 | 19 | #2,736 | 9.4 |
| 1957 | 22 | #2,477 | 10.8 |
| 1956 | 20 | #2,609 | 10.0 |
| 1955 | 24 | #2,272 | 12.3 |
| 1954 | 19 | #2,585 | 9.8 |
| 1953 | 13 | #3,250 | 6.9 |
| 1951 | 10 | #3,683 | 5.6 |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,999 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Silvana a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Silvana has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 75 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Silvana: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Silvana, and how old are they?
2,320 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 2,420 Americans ever recorded as Silvana. The median Silvana alive today is 24 years old; half are between 13 and 48.
The 2020 Census counted 6,285 people named Silvana (6,263 women and girls, 22 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,084 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.0 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 247 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 395 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 378 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 683 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 612 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Silvana born?
The states with the most babies named Silvana are Texas, Florida and California, with 82% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 8 | #2,597 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 8 | #1,669 | 1.0× |
| California | 7 | #2,731 | 1.2× |
| New York | 5 | #2,385 | 2.1× |
Where Silvana is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Silvana is most over-represented in New York: since 1950 it was given 2.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Silvana with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 4,368 babies since 1880, Silvana is the most given (55% of them). In 2025 it was given to 47 of their 60 babies (78%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Silvana
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Silvana and names like it
- Compare Silvana and SylvanaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sSilvana peaked in 2007.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Silvana since 1910.
- Italian namesWiktionary’s origin for Silvana: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Silvana.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Silvana alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.