Silvio

Where Silvio comes from

Borrowed from Italian Silvio.
— Wiktionary's entry for Silvio
  • Italian
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1905
    First appearance
    #1,233 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1913
    Silvio Piola born
    Italian footballer and manager
  3. 1917
    Peak, #680
    78 babies named Silvio — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1931
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,078.
  5. 1936
    Silvio Berlusconi born
    Italian media tycoon and politician
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Italian, equivalent to English Silvius.
Namesakes
  • Silvio Berlusconi · Italian media tycoon and politician, 1936–2023
  • Silvio Piola · Italian footballer and manager, 1913–1996
  • Silvio Spann · Trinidad and Tobago association football player, born 1981
  • Silvio Pellico · Italian writer and poet, 1789–1854
  • Silvio Gesell · German-Argentine economist, 1862–1930

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.