Girls' name · since 1959
Sylvanna
Sylvanna has 280 recorded births since 1959 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 1996 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #16,512 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 280
- born since 1959
- 1990s
- peak decade
Sylvanna is not among the current top-ranked girls names; 280 have been recorded since 1959.
Sylvanna has 280 recorded births among girls since 1959, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1990s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1959 to 2023.
- #16,512 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 280 born since 1959
- 1990s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Sylvanna ranks #16,512 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 280 born since 1959, peaking in the 1990s.
- #16,512 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 280
- born since 1959
- 1990s
- peak decade
Sylvanna's 280 recorded births place it above 77.16% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Sylvanna's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Sylvanna's SSA record in two at 2001 and the more recent half accounts for 53% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 47%, a genuinely balanced usage pattern. Its calmest year was 1959, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 1996 peak of 14, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Sylvanna popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1959–2023
- Peak year (1996)
- 14
- Annual births at peak, across 65 years of records
Sylvanna by decade
1990s is the heaviest window (82 births, 29% of the file).
1990s was Sylvanna's strongest decade.
82 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 29% of all-time use.
Sylvanna births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1950s 5
1950s
5 births
- 1960s 5
1960s
5 births
- 1980s
1980s
35 births
- 1990s
1990s
82 births
- 2000s
2000s
79 births
- 2010s
2010s
62 births
- 2020s 12
2020s
12 births
What this shows Peak: 1990s at 82 births (29% of all-time use).
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- Sylvanna's decade-level peak was the 1990s (82 total births); usage has since declined to 12 in the 2020s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Two nationwide peer axes for Sylvanna: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~1996)
Similar record span (~64 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1959–2023 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Sylvanna draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.