Sylva
Recorded for both sexesGreatest Generation2025 rank
#13,043
not recorded in 2025
2025 births
7
All-time births
890
1% of them in 2025
More common than
89%
of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 1919
- 31 births
- Best rank
- #938
- in 1891
- First recorded
- 1886
- #1,091 that year
- Last recorded
- 2025
- still in the data
- Average birth year
- 1924
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 74 of 146
- with gaps
Top five years
- 191931#1,419Peak
- 192031#1,467
- 191627#1,439
- 192527#1,639
- 191825#1,639
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #938 in 1891 · peak births 31 in 1919
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 2% boys■ 98% girls
18 boys · 890 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 Sylva has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.