Highest ever

Sylvie

Meaning not yet researched.

2025 rank
#282
1,096 girls
2015
#1,181
rank
1950
#5,239
rank

Sylvie: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,096 in 2025. Its best rank was #282 in 2025.

US births per year · SSA card applications

Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. Every baby recorded as Sylvie in 2025 was a girl.

Baby name · US data 1880–2025

#282 for US girls in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.

Babies in 2025
1,096
Since 1880
8,444
Years on record
88

Babies named Sylvie, every year since 1880

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Girls

Sylvie: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,096 girls in 2025. Peak: #282 in 2025 · most girls in one year: 1,096 (2025).

About the name Sylvie

In 2025, 1,096 US girls were named Sylvie, making it the 282nd most common girls’ name of the year, up 74 places from #356 in 2024. That is 223 more than the 873 girls named Sylvie in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #282, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,096. For comparison, it was #1,181 in 2015 and #5,239 in 1950.

Social Security card records list Sylvie in 88 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1909 with 5 babies. In all, 8,444 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 4,290 babies named Sylvie.

Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 5,443 US girls were named Sylvie; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 1,096. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,466 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.

Among the states, Sylvie ranked highest in South Dakota in 2025, at #50 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 3 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Sylvia (245,978 babies since 1880), Silvia (21,323 babies since 1880) and Silvio (3,000 babies since 1880).

Meaning

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 Czech, Dutch and French. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.

Related spellings

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.

Nicknames

No nicknames listed for Sylvie in the open dataset we use.

Sylvie is listed as a nickname for Sylvia.

Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).

Sylvie by state, 2025

US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 7 are not listed.

StateBirths 2025Rank 2025Rank 2015
South Dakota16#50—
Montana11#89—
Minnesota52#97#606
Maine10#114—
Wisconsin42#124#675
North Dakota8#139—
Iowa21#158#515
Oregon22#167#792
Utah26#182—
Michigan49#182#1,476
Massachusetts31#182#414
Washington40#185#758
Ohio59#189—
Colorado32#190—
District of Columbia5#194—
New Hampshire7#201—
Virginia38#220—
Pennsylvania51#222#1,111
Oklahoma18#224—
Illinois44#237#1,436
Idaho10#240—
Indiana30#242#1,242
Kentucky16#285—
Missouri22#288#1,109
New York59#290#815
Nebraska8#293—
Arkansas11#298—
Tennessee26#311#1,055
North Carolina34#329#1,217
West Virginia5#366—
Alabama14#367—
Arizona19#371—
Maryland13#425—
Georgia27#429#1,743
Nevada7#430—
Connecticut7#451—
California73#466#1,429
Mississippi6#511—
New Jersey15#531—
Florida32#570—
Louisiana7#671—
South Carolina7#680—
Kansas5#684#731
Texas39#777#2,350

Rank by year

Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.

CSV
YearGirlsGirls rankBoysBoys rank
20251,096#282——
2024873#356——
2023728#425——
2022724#433——
2021517#585——
2020352#775——
2019308#873——
2018299#901——
2017263#989——
2016283#959——
2015214#1,181——
2014228#1,117——
2013200#1,200——
2012170#1,378——
2011159#1,433——
2010147#1,528——
2009134#1,673——
2008127#1,754——
2007128#1,712——
200683#2,306——
200586#2,158——
200474#2,343——
200371#2,364——
200255#2,775——
200164#2,456——
200061#2,505——
199945#2,984——
199835#3,489——
199742#2,930——
199631#3,622——
199523#4,498——
199432#3,524——
199322#4,655——
199219#5,244——
199120#4,985——
199016#5,806——
198922#4,349——
198817#5,045——
198719#4,458——
198617#4,707——
198515#5,051——
198416#4,716——
198311#6,167——
198216#4,699——
19818#8,049——
198018#4,297——
19798#7,953——
197812#5,517——
19779#6,815——
197622#3,272——
197514#4,565——
197413#4,685——
197322#3,107——
197217#3,698——
197111#5,083——
197017#3,697——
196927#2,575——
196822#2,781——
196732#2,112——
196616#3,254——
196541#1,796——
196431#2,188——
196319#2,945——
196222#2,656——
196114#3,587——
196018#2,977——
195912#3,800——
195821#2,568——
195712#3,665——
195611#3,884——
195512#3,555——
19548#4,612——
19538#4,555——
19527#4,868——
19506#5,239——
19485#5,951——
19477#4,723——
19425#5,294——
19347#3,762——
19335#4,786——
19325#5,010——
19276#4,743——
19265#5,532——
19185#5,493——
19176#4,528——
19165#5,074——
19156#4,206——
19095#2,514——

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).