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Sylvestre

Boys' name

Form of Silvester

Sylvestre has been given to 96 babies in the U.S. since 1914. 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 1994, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Sylvestre, 2023

1 in 663,000

Sylvestre over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sylvestre: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Silvester

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Sylvestre means

Sylvestre is a form of Silvester.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Sylvestre is used in French.

Another recorded pronunciation is /sil.vɛstʁ/ for Sylvestre.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Sylvestre → Silvester → Sylvester. The family’s meaning is “woody, rural”, recorded in English with the source elements sylvester.

Origin, language, and formation

Sylvestre comes through Latin Silvester.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Silvester.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Sylvestre is pronounced /sil.vɛstʁ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 96 boys were recorded with the name Sylvestre between 1914 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 10 in 1994; its best national rank was #3,701 in 1914.

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 Sylvestre?

Sylvestre had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,314,783 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
459,528 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sylvestre 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 2023 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 459,528 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sylvestre. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sylvestres were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sylvestre was born before 1989 — so the typical Sylvestre is around 36 today.

Median birth year
1989
About 36 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
43.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
12.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
85
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Choose a decade

1990s — 43.8% of all recorded uses (42).

Is Sylvestre 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 1994 (10)
Years since peak
31
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,701
1914

Spellings of Sylvestre

Sylvestre is not the most common spelling — Sylvester is, with 94.4% against Sylvestre's 0.21%.

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 Sylvestre is used

Across 1910–2025, Sylvestre was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,905,450 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

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. Sylvestre has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Sylvestre around the world

Where Sylvestre 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.

  • France
    1900–2025
    #2,852
    in 2025

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Sylvestre 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
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Best rank ever
#3,701
1914
Peak year
1994
10 that year
First recorded
1914
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
96
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Sylvestre

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

SylvainSylvanusSyliasSylvestaSylesterDamontreDemontreDevontreSyloDeiontreDavontreSylvinKeontreLamontreDiontreSilvestreDemitreDemetreSilbestreDeantreSylvianDeontreSylvioSyles

Sibling names for Sylvestre

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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