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Girl's name · #1240 in the US (2025) · Retro
Silvia's best rank, #494, came in 1974; it has settled back to #1240 today. Roughly 21,000 girls have been named Silvia since 1884.
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Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 18 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.
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#361 in Mexico (2024) · #763 in Ecuador (2025) · #1,004 in Sweden (2025) · #1,270 in Belgium (2025) · #2,249 in France (2025) · #2,418 in England & Wales (2025) · #1,343 in Canada (2024).
Among 2,490 notable people named Silvia:
Scientists & scholars appear 1.51× more often than among typical names — e.g. Silvia Federici, Italian American scholar, teacher, and feminist activist.
Together with its spelling variant Sylvia (#300), Silvia would rank around #258 with about 1,200 births last year — the newborns split about 85/15 between Sylvia and Silvia.
Similar names: Sylvia · Luz · Sheila · Tania · Marcela · Adria
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