Silvestro

Boys' name

Woody, rural

Silvestro has been given to 10 babies in the U.S. since 1921. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1921, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Silvestro, 1924

1 in 476,000

Silvestro over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Silvestro: meaning, origin, and history

Woody, rural

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Silvestro means

Silvestro means “woody, rural”, associated with sylvester.

Origin, language, and formation

Silvestro is used in Italian.

Silvestro comes through Latin sylvester.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Sylvester.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Italian, Silvestro is pronounced /silˈvɛs.tro/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 10 boys were recorded with the name Silvestro between 1921 and 1924. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1921; its best national rank was #4,861 in 1924.

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 Silvestro?

Silvestro had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1924, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1924: 1 in 476,000; 5 of 2,381,562 births
Among boys only: 1 in 227,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 1924: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 330,156 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Silvestro 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 1924 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 330,156 children born in 1924 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Silvestro. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Silvestros were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Silvestro was born before 1921 — so the typical Silvestro is around 104 today.

Median birth year: 1921; About 104 years old
Biggest decade: 1920s; 100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 0; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1920s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (10).

Is Silvestro 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1921 (5)
Years since peak: 104; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #4,861; 1924

Spellings of Silvestro

Silvestro is not the most common spelling — Silvestre is, with 65.1% against Silvestro's 0.27%.

Silvestre65.1%2,457
Silvester34.6%1,306
Silvestro0.27%10

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.

Silvestro around the world

Where Silvestro 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.

South Australia
1954–2001
#581
in 2001

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Silvestro by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #4,861; 1924
Peak year: 1921; 5 that year
First recorded: 1921
Last recorded: 1924
All-time count: 10
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Silvestro

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

Silverius Silbestre Silvanus Maestro Silberio Silias Calixtro Silvin Silton Silviano Silven Silva Silvan Silem Dmytro Silvo Silvia Calistro Castro Silo Silis Silvestre Siler Silverio

Sibling names for Silvestro

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

For a sister

Elvera Rubie Tressie Lavinia Myrtis Margarette Adell Idella

For a brother

Hardy Antone Harmon Arlie Burl Dewitt Patsy Milford

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