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Silvan

#8,153 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Silvanus

Silvan has been given to 102 babies in the U.S. since 1926. In 2025 it ranked #8,153 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 12 recorded.

Babies named Silvan, 2025

1 in 332,000

Silvan over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05101518801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Silvan: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Silvanus

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Silvan means

Silvan is a form of Silvanus.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Silvan → Silvanus. The family’s meaning is “forest”, recorded in English with the source elements silva.

Origin, language, and formation

Silvan is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Silvanus.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 102 boys were recorded with the name Silvan between 1926 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 12 in 2024; its best national rank was #3,172 in 1956.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #7,961 in 2020 to #8,153 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #11,874 in 2015 to #8,153 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Silvan?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 332,000
10 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 171,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#8,153
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
229,791 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Silvan sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Silvan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Silvans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Silvan was born before 2018 — so the typical Silvan is around 7 today.

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
46.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
82.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
97
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Choose a decade

2020s — 46.1% of all recorded uses (47).

Is Silvan rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−951
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−192
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+3,721
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.67×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
83.3%
Peak was 2024 (12)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,172
1956

Spellings of Silvan

Silvan is not the most common spelling — Ivan is, with 52.1% against Silvan's 0.04%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Silvan around the world

Where Silvan ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2014–2014
    #4,632
    in 2014
  • France
    1977–2020
    #5,878
    in 2020

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Silvan by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#8,153
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 192
Best rank ever
#3,172
1956
Peak year
2024
12 that year
First recorded
1926
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
102
Count in 2025
10

Names similar to Silvan

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Silvan

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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