Sylva was the #11,932 girls' name in the US in 2025 (7 babies).
Sylva as a girl’s name
US
England & Wales
Babies per 1,000 of the same sex in each published list.Official rank; #1 at the top. Breaks in a line are years with too few babies to be published.Show the numbers
Year
US
England & Wales
2025
#11,932 (7)
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2020
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#5,493 (3)
2018
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#5,666 (3)
2014
#16,513 (5)
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1981
#8,128 (7)
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1973
#8,423 (5)
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1970
#7,995 (5)
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1967
#5,457 (7)
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1963
#5,891 (6)
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1961
#5,851 (6)
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1960
#5,168 (7)
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1957
#4,918 (7)
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1954
#3,967 (9)
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1953
#5,673 (5)
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1952
#5,563 (5)
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The tide so far
Peaked in the US in 1891 at #893.
First recorded in the US in 1886.
How common is it?
about 1 in 250,000 baby girls in the published US list for 2025.
In a group of 1,000 children born that year, you would expect to meet fewer than 1. How we work this out.