Sylvie
Sylvie was given to 1,096 girls in 2025, #282 among girls’ names; 8,444 Americans have been recorded with it since 1909 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 8,270 Americans named Sylvie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 6 years old and half are between 3 and 14.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sylvie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Sylvie mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Sylvie is “a female given name from French.”
Derived from Latin silva (forest).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Sylvie?
#282 among girls’ names, 2025
Sylvie rose from #1,181 in 2015 to #282 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.12 to 0.68 per 1,000.
1,096 babies in 2025, the peak
Sylvie peaked in 2025, when 1,096 girls were given it, #282 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 873 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,096 | #282 | 0.68 |
| 2024 | 873 | #356 | 0.54 |
| 2023 | 728 | #425 | 0.45 |
| 2022 | 724 | #433 | 0.44 |
| 2021 | 517 | #585 | 0.32 |
| 2020 | 352 | #775 | 0.22 |
| 2019 | 308 | #873 | 0.18 |
| 2018 | 299 | #901 | 0.18 |
| 2017 | 263 | #989 | 0.15 |
| 2016 | 283 | #959 | 0.16 |
Every recorded year (88)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 214 | #1,181 | 0.12 |
| 2014 | 228 | #1,117 | 0.13 |
| 2013 | 200 | #1,200 | 0.11 |
| 2012 | 170 | #1,378 | 0.10 |
| 2011 | 159 | #1,433 | 0.09 |
| 2010 | 147 | #1,528 | 0.08 |
| 2009 | 134 | #1,673 | 0.07 |
| 2008 | 127 | #1,754 | 0.07 |
| 2007 | 128 | #1,712 | 0.07 |
| 2006 | 83 | #2,306 | 0.04 |
| 2005 | 86 | #2,157 | 0.05 |
| 2004 | 74 | #2,340 | 0.04 |
| 2003 | 71 | #2,361 | 0.04 |
| 2002 | 55 | #2,771 | 0.03 |
| 2001 | 64 | #2,452 | 0.04 |
| 2000 | 61 | #2,501 | 0.03 |
| 1999 | 45 | #2,981 | 0.03 |
| 1998 | 35 | #3,486 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 42 | #2,927 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 31 | #3,617 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 23 | #4,493 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 32 | #3,519 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 22 | #4,649 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 19 | #5,238 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 20 | #4,979 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 16 | #5,801 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 22 | #4,343 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 17 | #5,040 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 19 | #4,455 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 17 | #4,704 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 15 | #5,049 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 16 | #4,715 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 11 | #6,165 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 16 | #4,698 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 8 | #8,047 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 18 | #4,296 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,951 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 12 | #5,516 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,813 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 22 | #3,271 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 14 | #4,563 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 13 | #4,684 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 22 | #3,106 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 17 | #3,698 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 11 | #5,081 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 17 | #3,696 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 27 | #2,575 | 0.02 |
| 1968 | 22 | #2,781 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 32 | #2,112 | 0.02 |
| 1966 | 16 | #3,253 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 41 | #1,796 | 0.02 |
| 1964 | 31 | #2,187 | 0.02 |
| 1963 | 19 | #2,944 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 22 | #2,655 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 14 | #3,586 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 18 | #2,976 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 12 | #3,799 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 21 | #2,567 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 12 | #3,664 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 11 | #3,883 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 12 | #3,554 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 8 | #4,610 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 8 | #4,554 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 7 | #4,866 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 6 | #5,237 | under 0.01 |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,949 | under 0.01 |
| 1947 | 7 | #4,721 | under 0.01 |
| 1942 | 5 | #5,292 | under 0.01 |
| 1934 | 7 | #3,760 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,784 | under 0.01 |
| 1932 | 5 | #5,008 | under 0.01 |
| 1927 | 6 | #4,741 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 5 | #5,530 | under 0.01 |
| 1918 | 5 | #5,491 | under 0.01 |
| 1917 | 6 | #4,526 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 5 | #5,072 | under 0.01 |
| 1915 | 6 | #4,204 | 0.01 |
| 1909 | 5 | #2,514 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Sylvie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sylvie has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 88 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Sylvie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sylvie, and how old are they?
8,270 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 8,444 Americans ever recorded as Sylvie. The median Sylvie alive today is 6 years old; half are between 3 and 14.
The 2020 Census counted 6,588 people named Sylvie (6,577 women and girls, 11 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,121 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 5 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 175 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 277 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 296 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,470 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 6,050 |
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 Sylvie born?
The states with the most babies named Sylvie are California, New York and Ohio, with 18% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 73 | #466 | 0.6× |
| New York | 59 | #290 | 1.1× |
| Ohio | 59 | #189 | 0.9× |
| Minnesota | 52 | #97 | 2.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 51 | #222 | 1.0× |
| Michigan | 49 | #182 | 1.0× |
| Illinois | 44 | #237 | 0.8× |
| Wisconsin | 42 | #124 | 1.3× |
| Washington | 40 | #185 | 1.4× |
| Texas | 39 | #777 | 0.3× |
Where Sylvie is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Sylvie is most over-represented in Minnesota: since 1910 it was given 2.2 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 Sylvie 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 277,213 babies since 1880, Sylvie is the third most given (3.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 1,096 of their 2,355 babies (47%), the most given that year.
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 Sylvie
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 Sylvie and names like it
- Compare Sylvie and SylviaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sSylvie peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sylvie since 1910.
- French namesWiktionary’s origin for Sylvie: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Sylvie.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Sylvie alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with SMost given first.