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Silvie

#5,691 in 2025Girls' name

Form of Silvia

Silvie has been given to 184 babies in the U.S. since 1921. In 2025 it ranked #5,691 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 22 recorded.

Babies named Silvie, 2025

1 in 151,000

Silvie over time, 1880–2025

Girls
010203018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Silvie: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Silvia

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Silvie means

Silvie is a form of Silvia.

Meaning behind the documented name family

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

Origin, language, and formation

Silvie is used in Czech.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Silvia.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 184 girls were recorded with the name Silvie between 1921 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 22 in 2025; its best national rank was #5,019 in 1921.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #11,993 in 2020 to #5,691 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #14,299 in 2015 to #5,691 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 Silvie?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 151,000
22 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 73,100
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#5,691
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
104,451 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Silvie sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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 104,451 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Silvie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Silvies were born

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

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
47.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
88.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
168
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 47.3% of all recorded uses (87).

Is Silvie 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
+918
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+6,302
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+8,608
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
3.14×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (22)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
37.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,019
1921

Spellings of Silvie

Silvie is not the most common spelling — Sylvia is, with 29.7% against Silvie's 0.02%.

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.

Silvie around the world

Where Silvie 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
    2003–2025
    #5,927
    in 2025
  • France
    1900–1984
    #3,127
    in 1984
  • South Australia
    1990–2011
    #514
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Silvie by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#5,691
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 6,302
Best rank ever
#5,019
1921
Peak year
2025
22 that year
First recorded
1921
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
184
Count in 2025
22

Names similar to Silvie

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

SilasNayvieSilenaHarvieSilkaSilahLevieEevieSilvinaSilverElovieJenavieEvvieVivieSilaSillerSilbiaVelvieNovieMarvieMavieSiloeClevieMaevie

Sibling names for Silvie

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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