Sylvia
Recorded for both sexesBaby Boomer2025 rank
#300
up +61 places
2025 births
1,017
up +149 births
All-time births
245,070
0% of them in 2025
More common than
100%
of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 1937
- 4,371 births
- Best rank
- #50
- in 1937
- First recorded
- 1880
- #162 that year
- Last recorded
- 2025
- still in the data
- Average birth year
- 1949
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 146 of 146
- unbroken
Top five years
- 19374,371#50Peak
- 19574,310#109
- 19384,259#56
- 19364,156#53
- 19584,156#114
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #50 in 1937 · peak births 4,371 in 1937
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 0% boys■ 100% girls
908 boys · 245,070 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 Sylvia has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.