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Silvo

Boys' name

Possibly wooded, through Sylvester

Silvo has been given to 5 babies in the U.S. since 1915. 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 1915, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Silvo, 1915

1 in 366,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Silvo: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly wooded, through Sylvester

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Silvo means

Silvo belongs to the name family reached through Silvo → Sylvester. Its meaning is “wooded”.

Origin, language, and formation

Silvo is used in Finnish and Slovene.

Silvo comes through Middle High German Silvester and Ancient Greek Σιλουανός.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Sylvester.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Finnish, Silvo is pronounced /ˈsilʋo/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Silvo between 1915 and 1915. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1915; its best national rank was #4,313 in 1915.

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 Silvo?

Silvo had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1915, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1915
1 in 366,000
5 of 1,832,372 births
Among boys only
1 in 170,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1915
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
254,022 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Silvo 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 1915 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 254,022 children born in 1915 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Silvo. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Silvos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Silvo was born before 1915 — so the typical Silvo is around 110 today.

Median birth year
1915
About 110 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
0
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1910s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (5).

Is Silvo 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1915 (5)
Years since peak
110
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#4,313
1915

Spellings of Silvo

Silvo is not the most common spelling — Silas is, with 59.1% against Silvo's <0.01%.

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.

Silvo around the world

Where Silvo 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
    1961–1961
    #393
    in 1961

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

Silvo 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
#4,313
1915
Peak year
1915
5 that year
First recorded
1915
Last recorded
1915
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Silvo

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

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Sibling names for Silvo

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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