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Silvio

#2,829 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Silvius

Silvio has been given to 3,000 babies in the U.S. since 1905. In 2025 it ranked #2,829 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1922, with 86 recorded.

Babies named Silvio, 2025

1 in 73,700

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Silvio: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Silvius

Italian

What Silvio means

Silvio is a form of Silvius.

Meaning behind the documented name family

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

Origin, language, and formation

Silvio is used in English, Albanian, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish. Its origins include Italian.

Silvio comes through Italian Silvio.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Silvius.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Italian, Silvio is pronounced /ˈsil.vjo/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,000 boys were recorded with the name Silvio between 1905 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 86 in 1922; its best national rank was #686 in 1917.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #6,241 in 2020 to #2,829 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #4,526 in 2015 to #2,829 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 Silvio?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 73,700
45 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 38,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,829
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
51,066 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Silvio 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 51,066 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Silvio. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Silvios were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Silvio was born before 1947 — so the typical Silvio is around 78 today.

Median birth year
1947
About 78 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
21.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
20.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,446
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 21.4% of all recorded uses (641).

Is Silvio 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
+264
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+3,412
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,697
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.05×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
52.3%
Peak was 1922 (86)
Years since peak
103
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#686
1917

Spellings of Silvio

Silvio is the most-used spelling, taking 34.0% of the 8,818 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 Silvio is used

Across 1910–2025, Silvio was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 25,000 boys, against 1 in 68,497 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 25,000
  2. 2Connecticut1 in 33,333
  3. 3Massachusetts1 in 50,000
  4. 4New Jersey1 in 50,000
  5. 5Pennsylvania1 in 50,000
  6. 6Rhode Island1 in 50,000
  7. 7California1 in 100,000
  8. 8Florida1 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. Silvio has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Silvio around the world

Where Silvio 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
    2005–2023
    #4,992
    in 2023
  • France
    1903–2025
    #1,859
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2023
    #3,103
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1953–1999
    #368
    in 1999

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

Notable people named Silvio

People whose public names include Silvio, 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.

Silvio in other languages

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

SylvioSilviuSilviosSilviusSylwiuszSzilviusz

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

Silvio by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,829
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 3,412
Best rank ever
#686
1917
Peak year
1922
86 that year
First recorded
1905
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,000
Count in 2025
45

Names similar to Silvio

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

FlavioSilverSilvanoSilverioSilvestreSilusOctavioSilvanFavioSilerSilvianoSilasSilvinoSilvesterSylvioSavioOtavioTavioSilviaOttavioSiloSilvanusLivioSilias

Names with a curve like Silvio

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

WellingtonAmericoOswaldGaetanoSumnerFlorianSylvanEstonUrbanGuidoGoldenOlan

Sibling names for Silvio

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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