In 2025, 45 US boys were named Silvio, making it the 2,830th most common boys’ name of the year, up 264 places from #3,094 in 2024. That is 5 more than the 40 boys named Silvio in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #686, reached in 1917. The most boys given the name in a single year was 86, in 1922. For comparison, it was #4,528 in 2015 and #2,102 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Silvio in 119 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1905 with 5 babies. In all, 3,000 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 641 babies named Silvio.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 295 US boys were named Silvio; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 45. In 2025 that was about 1 in 37,957 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Silvio ranked highest in Pennsylvania in 2025, at #1,082 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Sylvia (245,978 babies since 1880), Silvia (21,323 babies since 1880) and Sylvie (8,444 babies since 1880).
Meaning
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Italian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.