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Sylvi

#5,381 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Solveig

Sylvi has been given to 322 babies in the U.S. since 2006. In 2025 it ranked #5,381 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 38 recorded.

Babies named Sylvi, 2025

1 in 138,000

Sylvi over time, 1880–2025

Girls
01020304018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sylvi: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Solveig

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Sylvi means

Sylvi is a variant of Solveig.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Sylvi → Solveig. The family’s proposed meaning is “hall, house”, recorded in Norwegian Bokmål with the source elements salr.

Origin, language, and formation

Sylvi is used in Finnish and Norwegian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Solveig and Sylvia.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Finnish, Sylvi is pronounced /ˈsylʋi/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 322 girls were recorded with the name Sylvi between 2006 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 38 in 2022; its best national rank was #3,955 in 2022.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,532 in 2020 to #5,381 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #7,230 in 2015 to #5,381 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 Sylvi?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 138,000
24 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 67,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#5,381
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
95,747 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sylvi 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 95,747 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sylvi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sylvis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sylvi was born before 2020 — so the typical Sylvi is around 5 today.

Median birth year
2020
About 5 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
56.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
322
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 56.8% of all recorded uses (183).

Is Sylvi 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
−830
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−849
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,849
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.41×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
63.2%
Peak was 2022 (38)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,955
2022

Spellings of Sylvi

Sylvi is not the most common spelling — Sylvia is, with 83.8% against Sylvi's 0.11%.

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 Sylvi is used

Across 1910–2025, Sylvi was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 592,337 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Sylvi has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Sylvi around the world

Where Sylvi 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
    2016–2025
    #5,927
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–1987
    #638
    in 1987

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Norway. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. SSB data under CC BY 4.0.

Sylvi by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#5,381
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 849
Best rank ever
#3,955
2022
Peak year
2022
38 that year
First recorded
2006
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
322
Count in 2025
24

Names similar to Sylvi

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

SylvaSylaSylahSylverSylasSylvanSylenaSylerSylivaSylvanaSylveeSylinaSolviElviSylarSylwiaHelviSylvannaSylvanasSyleenaSyliaSylvieSylvaniaSylviana

Sibling names for Sylvi

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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