Sylvan
Recorded for both sexesBaby Boomer2025 rank
#1,674
up +227 places
2025 births
99
up +15 births
All-time births
3,684
3% of them in 2025
More common than
95%
of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 1918
- 103 births
- Best rank
- #555
- in 1912
- First recorded
- 1886
- #837 that year
- Last recorded
- 2025
- still in the data
- Average birth year
- 1958
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 130 of 146
- with gaps
Top five years
- 1918103#606Peak
- 202599#1,674
- 191684#640
- 202484#1,901
- 192580#728
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #555 in 1912 · peak births 103 in 1918
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 97% boys■ 3% girls
3,684 boys · 129 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 Sylvan has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.