Meaning not yet researched.
Silvia: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 182 in 2025. Its best rank was #494 in 1974.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #494 in 1974; #1,240 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Silvia in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,240 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1974, at #494.
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Silvia: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 182 girls in 2025. Peak: #494 in 1974 · most girls in one year: 374 (1991).
In 2025, 182 US girls were named Silvia, making it the 1,240th most common girls’ name of the year, down 78 places from #1,162 in 2024. That is 25 fewer than the 207 girls named Silvia in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #494, reached in 1974. The most girls given the name in a single year was 374, in 1991. For comparison, it was #1,393 in 2015 and #894 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Silvia in 138 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1884 with 6 babies. In all, 21,323 US babies have been given the name, 99.7% of them girls and 0.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 3,290 babies named Silvia.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,693 US girls were named Silvia; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 207. In 2025 that was about 1 in 8,831 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Silvia ranked highest in Colorado in 2025, at #580 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Sylvia (245,978 babies since 1880), Sylvie (8,444 babies since 1880) and Silvio (3,000 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Silveria and Silvestra are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch, Galician, Italian, Latin and Spanish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Silveria (91), Silvestra (31).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Silvia in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 37 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Colorado | 10 | #580 | — |
| Wisconsin | 6 | #776 | #737 |
| Washington | 7 | #899 | #1,091 |
| Missouri | 6 | #913 | — |
| Virginia | 8 | #921 | #1,054 |
| Pennsylvania | 8 | #1,096 | — |
| Ohio | 8 | #1,120 | #1,675 |
| California | 21 | #1,225 | #981 |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,383 | — |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,394 | — |
| Texas | 17 | #1,453 | #1,226 |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,652 | #1,213 |
| Florida | 7 | #1,861 | #1,458 |
| New York | 6 | #2,041 | #1,064 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 182 | #1,240 | — | — |
| 2024 | 207 | #1,162 | — | — |
| 2023 | 163 | #1,385 | — | — |
| 2022 | 163 | #1,404 | — | — |
| 2021 | 164 | #1,352 | — | — |
| 2020 | 157 | #1,397 | — | — |
| 2019 | 182 | #1,279 | — | — |
| 2018 | 160 | #1,403 | — | — |
| 2017 | 144 | #1,533 | — | — |
| 2016 | 171 | #1,379 | — | — |
| 2015 | 170 | #1,393 | — | — |
| 2014 | 199 | #1,232 | — | — |
| 2013 | 187 | #1,271 | — | — |
| 2012 | 184 | #1,295 | — | — |
| 2011 | 188 | #1,271 | — | — |
| 2010 | 186 | #1,284 | — | — |
| 2009 | 238 | #1,075 | — | — |
| 2008 | 205 | #1,235 | — | — |
| 2007 | 241 | #1,085 | — | — |
| 2006 | 244 | #1,054 | — | — |
| 2005 | 248 | #987 | — | — |
| 2004 | 235 | #1,006 | — | — |
| 2003 | 239 | #973 | — | — |
| 2002 | 210 | #1,033 | — | — |
| 2001 | 263 | #872 | — | — |
| 2000 | 258 | #853 | — | — |
| 1999 | 243 | #883 | — | — |
| 1998 | 266 | #799 | — | — |
| 1997 | 260 | #801 | — | — |
| 1996 | 293 | #719 | — | — |
| 1995 | 304 | #696 | — | — |
| 1994 | 324 | #663 | 6 | #8,656 |
| 1993 | 327 | #669 | — | — |
| 1992 | 372 | #611 | — | — |
| 1991 | 374 | #603 | — | — |
| 1990 | 371 | #608 | — | — |
| 1989 | 359 | #598 | — | — |
| 1988 | 363 | #568 | 5 | #8,331 |
| 1987 | 265 | #695 | — | — |
| 1986 | 323 | #599 | 5 | #7,677 |
| 1985 | 330 | #590 | 13 | #3,572 |
| 1984 | 296 | #603 | 7 | #5,492 |
| 1983 | 314 | #572 | — | — |
| 1982 | 345 | #548 | 5 | #7,228 |
| 1981 | 343 | #543 | — | — |
| 1980 | 317 | #582 | — | — |
| 1979 | 351 | #535 | 5 | #6,939 |
| 1978 | 316 | #552 | — | — |
| 1977 | 324 | #547 | — | — |
| 1976 | 333 | #527 | — | — |
| 1975 | 346 | #515 | — | — |
| 1974 | 356 | #494 | — | — |
| 1973 | 290 | #568 | — | — |
| 1972 | 315 | #535 | — | — |
| 1971 | 295 | #591 | — | — |
| 1970 | 299 | #587 | — | — |
| 1969 | 327 | #546 | — | — |
| 1968 | 291 | #561 | — | — |
| 1967 | 282 | #564 | — | — |
| 1966 | 274 | #572 | 5 | #4,455 |
| 1965 | 296 | #552 | — | — |
| 1964 | 261 | #631 | — | — |
| 1963 | 251 | #638 | — | — |
| 1962 | 265 | #616 | — | — |
| 1961 | 269 | #625 | — | — |
| 1960 | 229 | #672 | — | — |
| 1959 | 246 | #634 | — | — |
| 1958 | 251 | #622 | — | — |
| 1957 | 255 | #616 | — | — |
| 1956 | 235 | #626 | — | — |
| 1955 | 232 | #610 | — | — |
| 1954 | 135 | #811 | — | — |
| 1953 | 131 | #804 | — | — |
| 1952 | 130 | #793 | — | — |
| 1951 | 127 | #792 | — | — |
| 1950 | 99 | #894 | — | — |
| 1949 | 94 | #917 | — | — |
| 1948 | 80 | #975 | — | — |
| 1947 | 72 | #1,054 | — | — |
| 1946 | 82 | #926 | — | — |
| 1945 | 58 | #1,021 | — | — |
| 1944 | 58 | #1,038 | — | — |
| 1943 | 50 | #1,151 | — | — |
| 1942 | 57 | #1,045 | — | — |
| 1941 | 44 | #1,130 | — | — |
| 1940 | 48 | #1,045 | — | — |
| 1939 | 44 | #1,089 | — | — |
| 1938 | 46 | #1,068 | — | — |
| 1937 | 33 | #1,274 | — | — |
| 1936 | 37 | #1,182 | — | — |
| 1935 | 41 | #1,095 | — | — |
| 1934 | 25 | #1,513 | — | — |
| 1933 | 28 | #1,396 | — | — |
| 1932 | 15 | #2,226 | — | — |
| 1931 | 37 | #1,197 | — | — |
| 1930 | 30 | #1,428 | — | — |
| 1929 | 22 | #1,753 | — | — |
| 1928 | 35 | #1,309 | — | — |
| 1927 | 43 | #1,191 | — | — |
| 1926 | 47 | #1,110 | — | — |
| 1925 | 35 | #1,372 | — | — |
| 1924 | 28 | #1,638 | — | — |
| 1923 | 55 | #1,024 | — | — |
| 1922 | 36 | #1,338 | — | — |
| 1921 | 42 | #1,202 | — | — |
| 1920 | 42 | #1,188 | — | — |
| 1919 | 54 | #979 | — | — |
| 1918 | 43 | #1,151 | — | — |
| 1917 | 41 | #1,123 | — | — |
| 1916 | 43 | #1,082 | — | — |
| 1915 | 34 | #1,187 | — | — |
| 1914 | 24 | #1,298 | — | — |
| 1913 | 17 | #1,459 | — | — |
| 1912 | 30 | #934 | — | — |
| 1911 | 16 | #1,162 | — | — |
| 1910 | 19 | #1,026 | — | — |
| 1909 | 15 | #1,096 | — | — |
| 1908 | 9 | #1,528 | — | — |
| 1907 | 11 | #1,275 | — | — |
| 1906 | 8 | #1,540 | — | — |
| 1905 | 10 | #1,290 | — | — |
| 1904 | 5 | #2,136 | — | — |
| 1903 | 13 | #1,020 | — | — |
| 1902 | 12 | #1,065 | — | — |
| 1901 | 10 | #1,125 | — | — |
| 1900 | 12 | #1,162 | — | — |
| 1899 | 12 | #975 | — | — |
| 1898 | 9 | #1,246 | — | — |
| 1897 | 12 | #974 | — | — |
| 1896 | 9 | #1,201 | — | — |
| 1895 | 6 | #1,568 | — | — |
| 1894 | 7 | #1,335 | — | — |
| 1890 | 7 | #1,188 | — | — |
| 1889 | 7 | #1,129 | — | — |
| 1888 | 5 | #1,451 | — | — |
| 1887 | 7 | #1,024 | — | — |
| 1886 | 7 | #985 | — | — |
| 1884 | 6 | #1,011 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).