Sylvana
Sylvana was given to 13 girls in 2025, #8,295 among girls’ names; 817 Americans have been recorded with it since 1951 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sylvana by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Sylvana?
#8,295 among girls’ names, 2025
Sylvana fell from #6,696 in 2015 to #8,295 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 10.6 to 8.1 per million.
24 babies in 2008, the peak
Sylvana peaked in 2008, when 24 girls were given it, #5,934 among girls’ names. The 13 births of 2025 are 54% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #8,295 | 8.1 |
| 2024 | 6 | #15,057 | 3.7 |
| 2023 | 13 | #8,437 | 8.1 |
| 2022 | 8 | #12,122 | 4.9 |
| 2021 | 7 | #13,320 | 4.3 |
| 2020 | 14 | #7,910 | 8.7 |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,550 | 7.7 |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,551 | 7.6 |
| 2017 | 19 | #6,504 | 11.0 |
| 2016 | 15 | #7,936 | 8.5 |
Every recorded year (66)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 19 | #6,696 | 10.6 |
| 2014 | 11 | #10,067 | 6.2 |
| 2013 | 14 | #8,519 | 8.0 |
| 2012 | 17 | #7,420 | 9.7 |
| 2011 | 15 | #8,151 | 8.5 |
| 2010 | 19 | #6,874 | 10.7 |
| 2009 | 16 | #8,010 | 8.7 |
| 2008 | 24 | #5,934 | 12.7 |
| 2007 | 20 | #6,773 | 10.4 |
| 2006 | 17 | #7,444 | 8.9 |
| 2005 | 16 | #7,455 | 8.7 |
| 2004 | 14 | #8,195 | 7.6 |
| 2003 | 13 | #8,427 | 7.1 |
| 2002 | 20 | #5,874 | 11.1 |
| 2001 | 11 | #9,280 | 6.1 |
| 2000 | 14 | #7,522 | 7.7 |
| 1999 | 15 | #6,794 | 8.5 |
| 1998 | 12 | #7,963 | 6.8 |
| 1997 | 14 | #6,797 | 8.0 |
| 1996 | 11 | #8,060 | 6.3 |
| 1995 | 14 | #6,590 | 8.0 |
| 1994 | 22 | #4,667 | 12.3 |
| 1993 | 16 | #5,914 | 8.8 |
| 1992 | 16 | #5,970 | 8.7 |
| 1991 | 17 | #5,630 | 9.1 |
| 1990 | 17 | #5,510 | 9.0 |
| 1989 | 18 | #5,028 | 9.8 |
| 1988 | 14 | #5,856 | 7.9 |
| 1987 | 16 | #5,049 | 9.2 |
| 1986 | 10 | #7,063 | 5.8 |
| 1985 | 19 | #4,267 | 11.0 |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,723 | 5.9 |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,891 | 4.2 |
| 1982 | 11 | #6,316 | 6.5 |
| 1981 | 11 | #6,263 | 6.6 |
| 1980 | 12 | #5,866 | 7.2 |
| 1979 | 6 | #10,049 | 3.7 |
| 1978 | 7 | #8,443 | 4.6 |
| 1977 | 10 | #6,284 | 6.5 |
| 1975 | 5 | #10,391 | 3.4 |
| 1974 | 5 | #10,033 | 3.4 |
| 1972 | 6 | #8,133 | 3.9 |
| 1971 | 9 | #5,936 | 5.4 |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,974 | 4.0 |
| 1969 | 9 | #5,399 | 5.3 |
| 1967 | 9 | #4,930 | 5.5 |
| 1965 | 5 | #7,399 | 2.8 |
| 1962 | 5 | #7,451 | 2.5 |
| 1961 | 11 | #4,206 | 5.4 |
| 1960 | 5 | #7,188 | 2.5 |
| 1959 | 6 | #6,147 | 3.0 |
| 1957 | 6 | #6,007 | 2.9 |
| 1956 | 13 | #3,477 | 6.5 |
| 1955 | 11 | #3,758 | 5.6 |
| 1953 | 10 | #3,926 | 5.3 |
| 1951 | 9 | #3,979 | 5.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Sylvana a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sylvana has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 66 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Sylvana: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sylvana, and how old are they?
An estimated 786 Americans named Sylvana and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 28 years old and half are between 16 and 41. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,023 people named Sylvana (1,018 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 737 born in the U.S. The Census count is 39% above 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.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 4,368 babies since 1880, Sylvana is the second most given (19% of them). In 2025 it was given to 13 of their 60 babies (22%), again the second 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 Sylvana
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 Sylvana and names like it
- Compare Sylvana and SilvanaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Sylvana.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Sylvana alive today were born 1997-2012.
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