Sylvester · Shortlist Together

Meaning

We don’t have a verified meaning for Sylvester.

We only publish meanings we can cite to a source you could check yourself. Most sites will give you one anyway; the ones you find elsewhere are often copied between sites without verification.

Its story

Popularity since 1890

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Per million girls born. Years with fewer than five births are not in the record, so the line breaks rather than dropping to zero.

See the 63 recorded years as a table

Sylvester, per million girls born. Years absent from the table had fewer than five births.
Year	Per million
1890	32
1892	28
1894	31
1900	23
1901	33
1902	23
1903	19
1904	40
1906	27
1907	25
1908	27
1909	17
1910	25
1911	14
1912	9
1913	13
1914	12
1915	9
1916	9
1917	22
1918	17
1919	19
1920	10
1921	14
1922	11
1923	17
1924	14
1925	11
1926	23
1927	13
1928	13
1929	13
1930	12
1931	8
1932	9
1933	9
1934	11
1935	10
1937	8
1938	6
1939	13
1940	6
1941	7
1943	6
1945	5
1947	3
1948	5
1950	7
1952	4
1953	5
1954	4
1955	5
1956	3
1959	4
1960	2
1962	3
1963	4
1967	4
1968	3
1970	4
1971	4
1972	3
1981	4

Where it’s loved

Most popular in these states

Sylvester isn’t concentrated in any one state. Either it’s spread evenly, or no state reaches the 25 births over three years needed before a rate means anything.

More like it

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The numbers

Every figure

Births in 1981: 6
Rank in 1981: #9,110
How rare: 1 in 278,010 girls
Since 1890: 627

Sylvester was last recorded in 1981. Fewer than five girls have been given the name in any year since, which is the point below which the record stops reporting.

Most popular in 1904, at 40 per million girls born.

There isn’t enough data for a ten-year trend: Sylvester doesn’t appear in both ends of that window.

Figures from the US Social Security Administration’s 2025 release. How these numbers are made.