Sylver
#14,736 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Sylver has been given to 183 babies in the U.S. since 1983. In 2025 it ranked #14,736 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2013, with 9 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 95% girls, 5% boys all-time.
Babies named Sylver, 2025
1 in 553,000
Sylver over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Sylver over time
In 2025, Sylver went to 100% girls and 0% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Sylver?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 553,000
- 6 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 268,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #14,736
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 382,984 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Sylver sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sylver. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Sylvers were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Sylver was born before 2012 — so the typical Sylver is around 13 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 35.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 64.2%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 173
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 35.8% of all recorded uses (62).
Is Sylver 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
- −1,411
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +2,509
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −399
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.86×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 66.7%
- Peak was 2013 (9)
- Years since peak
- 12
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 19.3% average annual change
Spellings of Sylver
Sylver is not the most common spelling — Sylvia is, with 80.2% against Sylver's 0.06%.
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.
Sylver around the world
Where Sylver 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 & Wales2019–2020#2,404in 2020
- France1924–2017#6,020in 2017
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Sylver by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Sylver
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Sylver
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.