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Silvestre

#5,017 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Silvester

Silvestre has been given to 2,457 babies in the U.S. since 1912. In 2025 it ranked #5,017 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1994, with 60 recorded.

Babies named Silvestre, 2025

1 in 166,000

Silvestre over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Silvestre: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Silvester

Latin

What Silvestre means

Silvestre is a form of Silvester.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Silvestre → Silvester → Sylvester. The family’s meaning is “woody, rural”, recorded in English with the source elements sylvester.

Origin, language, and formation

Silvestre is used in Catalan and Portuguese. Its origins include Latin.

Silvestre comes through Latin Silvester.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Silvester and Sylvester.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Portuguese, Silvestre is pronounced /siwˈvɛs.tɾi/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,457 boys were recorded with the name Silvestre between 1912 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 60 in 1994; its best national rank was #1,538 in 1992.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,399 in 2020 to #5,017 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,270 in 2015 to #5,017 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 Silvestre?

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
#5,017
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
114,896 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Silvestre 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 Silvestre. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Silvestres were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Silvestre was born before 1991 — so the typical Silvestre is around 34 today.

Median birth year
1991
About 34 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
20.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
29.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,024
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 20.6% of all recorded uses (506).

Is Silvestre 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
+602
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−618
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−747
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.83×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
33.3%
Peak was 1994 (60)
Years since peak
31
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,538
1992

Spellings of Silvestre

Silvestre is the most-used spelling, taking 65.3% of the 3,763 babies given a near-identical spelling.

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 Silvestre is used

Across 1910–2025, Silvestre was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 14,286 boys, against 1 in 37,523 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

07 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 14,286
  2. 2California1 in 25,000
  3. 3Illinois1 in 100,000
  4. 4Florida1 in —
  5. 5New York1 in —

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. Silvestre has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Silvestre around the world

Where Silvestre 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
    1905–1994
    #3,246
    in 1994

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Notable people named Silvestre

People whose public names include Silvestre, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Silvestre in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Silvestre. Linked forms have their own page here.

Sylvestre

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Silvestre by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,017
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 618
Best rank ever
#1,538
1992
Peak year
1994
60 that year
First recorded
1912
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,457
Count in 2025
20

Names similar to Silvestre

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

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Names with a curve like Silvestre

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Silvestre, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

UbaldoCelsoServandoBaltazarCarlinFilibertoGabinoFaustoRoqueCeasarDemetrioLauro

Sibling names for Silvestre

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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