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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Silva

Recorded for both sexesBaby Boomer

2025 rank

—

not recorded in 2025

2025 births

—

All-time births

901

peak year 1969

More common than

89%

of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1969
19 births
Best rank
#1,638
in 1892
First recorded
1892
#1,638 that year
Last recorded
2023
no later published record
Average birth year
1961
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
93 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 196919#3,186Peak
  2. 199219#5,239
  3. 196718#3,057
  4. 196417#3,223
  5. 196817#3,292

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #1,638 in 1892 · peak births 19 in 1969

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 1% boys■ 99% girls

10 boys · 901 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Silva has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.