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Silvano

#5,016 in 2025Boys' name

Wood

Silvano has been given to 1,029 babies in the U.S. since 1921. In 2025 it ranked #5,016 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2005, with 30 recorded.

Babies named Silvano, 2025

1 in 166,000

Silvano over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Silvano: meaning, origin, and history

Wood

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Silvano means

Silvano means “wood”, associated with silva.

Origin, language, and formation

Silvano is used in Italian.

Silvano comes through Latin silva.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Italian, Silvano is pronounced /silˈva.no/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,029 boys were recorded with the name Silvano between 1921 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 30 in 2005; its best national rank was #2,521 in 1961.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #6,240 in 2020 to #5,016 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,061 in 2015 to #5,016 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 Silvano?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 166,000
20 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 85,400
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,016
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
114,896 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Silvano 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 114,896 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Silvano. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Silvanos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Silvano was born before 1996 — so the typical Silvano is around 29 today.

Median birth year
1996
About 29 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
20.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
41.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
968
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2000s — 20.5% of all recorded uses (211).

Is Silvano 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
+1,401
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,224
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−955
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.77×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
66.7%
Peak was 2005 (30)
Years since peak
20
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
38.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,521
1961

Spellings of Silvano

Silvano is not the most common spelling — Sylvan is, with 47.8% against Silvano's 13.3%.

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.

Where Silvano is used

Across 1910–2025, Silvano was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 104,055 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in 100,000).

11 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Texas1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Silvano has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Silvano around the world

Where Silvano 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.

  • France
    1923–2025
    #5,092
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    1955–2008
    #726
    in 2008

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Silvano by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,016
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,224
Best rank ever
#2,521
1961
Peak year
2005
30 that year
First recorded
1921
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,029
Count in 2025
20

Names similar to Silvano

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

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Sibling names for Silvano

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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