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Sylvie

#282 in 2025Girls' name

Form of Silvia

Sylvie has been given to 8,444 babies in the U.S. since 1909. In 2025 it ranked #282 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 1,096 recorded.

Babies named Sylvie, 2025

1 in 3,020

Sylvie over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05001K1.5K18801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sylvie: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Silvia

French

What Sylvie means

Sylvie is a form of Silvia.

Meaning behind the documented name family

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

Origin, language, and formation

Sylvie is used in English, Czech and French. Its origins include French.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Silvia and Sylvia.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Sylvie is pronounced /sil.vi/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 8,444 girls were recorded with the name Sylvie between 1909 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 1,096 in 2025; its best national rank was #282 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #775 in 2020 to #282 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,181 in 2015 to #282 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 Sylvie?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 3,020
1,096 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 1,470
0.07% of girls
Rank, 2025
#282
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
2,098 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sylvie 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 1003%
School of 50015%

Put another way: gather 2,098 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sylvie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sylvies were born

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

Median birth year
2020
About 5 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
50.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
87.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
8,372
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 50.8% of all recorded uses (4,290).

Is Sylvie 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
+74
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+493
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+899
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
5.12×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (1,096)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#282
2025

Spellings of Sylvie

Sylvie is not the most common spelling — Sylvia is, with 48.9% against Sylvie's 1.7%.

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 Sylvie is used

Across 2016–2025, Sylvie was most concentrated in North Dakota — about 1 in 704 girls, against 1 in 2,660 across all states with data. It was least common in Mississippi (1 in 8,333).

12142 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1North Dakota1 in 704
  2. 2Minnesota1 in 813
  3. 3South Dakota1 in 855
  4. 4Vermont1 in 926
  5. 5Montana1 in 990
  6. 6Iowa1 in 1,031
  7. 7Wisconsin1 in 1,149
  8. 8Maine1 in 1,163

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.

Geographically, Sylvie is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 64% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Sylvie around the world

Where Sylvie 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
    1996–2025
    #186
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2006–2025
    #204
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2013–2025
    #231
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2008–2025
    #608
    in 2025
  • France
    1900–2025
    #3,187
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #455
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1954–2013
    #536
    in 2013

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

Notable people named Sylvie

People whose public names include Sylvie, 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.

Sylvie in other languages

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

SilviaSylviaSílvia

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

Sylvie by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#282
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 493
Best rank ever
#282
2025
Peak year
2025
1,096 that year
First recorded
1909
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
8,444
Count in 2025
1,096

Names similar to Sylvie

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

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Names with a curve like Sylvie

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

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Sibling names for Sylvie

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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