Sylvanus
#12,008 for boys in 2025, 5 births
- Peak · boys
- 1894 · 8 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 470since 1880
Sylvanus over time
Rank among boys' names. Sylvanus has never cracked the top 700 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #12,008 | 5 |
| 2024 | #9,894 | 7 |
| 2023 | #8,921 | 8 |
| 2022 | — | |
| 2021 | #9,714 | 7 |
| 2020 | #10,605 | 6 |
| 2019 | — | |
| 2018 | — | |
| 2017 | #12,246 | 5 |
| 2016 | — | |
| 2015 | #8,744 | 8 |
| 2014 | #10,717 | 6 |
| 2013 | #10,728 | 6 |
| 2012 | — | |
| 2011 | #10,808 | 6 |
| 2010 | — | |
| 2009 | — | |
| 2008 | — | |
| 2007 | — | |
| 2006 | — | |
| 2005 | #8,299 | 8 |
| 2004 | #11,356 | 5 |
| 2003 | #9,581 | 6 |
| 2002 | #10,667 | 5 |
| 2001 | #9,243 | 6 |
| 2000 | #10,349 | 5 |
| 1999 | — | |
| 1998 | #8,479 | 6 |
| 1997 | — | |
| 1996 | — | |
| 1995 | — | |
| 1994 | — | |
| 1993 | #8,700 | 5 |
| 1992 | — | |
| 1991 | #8,236 | 5 |
| 1990 | — | |
| 1989 | — | |
| 1988 | — | |
| 1987 | — | |
| 1986 | #6,721 | 5 |
| 1985 | — | |
| 1984 | — | |
| 1983 | #6,238 | 5 |
| 1982 | #4,234 | 9 |
| 1981 | — | |
| 1980 | #4,134 | 9 |
| 1979 | — | |
| 1978 | — | |
| 1977 | — | |
| 1976 | #5,587 | 5 |
| 1975 | — | |
| 1974 | #5,227 | 5 |
| 1973 | — | |
| 1972 | — | |
| 1971 | — | |
| 1970 | #4,724 | 5 |
| 1969 | — | |
| 1968 | — | |
| 1967 | — | |
| 1966 | — | |
| 1965 | — | |
| 1964 | — | |
| 1963 | #4,048 | 5 |
| 1962 | — | |
| 1961 | — | |
| 1960 | — | |
| 1959 | — | |
| 1958 | — | |
| 1957 | — | |
| 1956 | #3,535 | 6 |
| 1955 | — | |
| 1954 | — | |
| 1953 | #3,143 | 7 |
| 1952 | — | |
| 1951 | — | |
| 1950 | — | |
| 1949 | — | |
| 1948 | #3,668 | 5 |
| 1947 | #3,096 | 7 |
| 1946 | #2,534 | 9 |
| 1945 | — | |
| 1944 | #2,633 | 8 |
| 1943 | #3,538 | 5 |
| 1942 | #3,212 | 6 |
| 1941 | — | |
| 1940 | — | |
| 1939 | — | |
| 1938 | — | |
| 1937 | #2,680 | 8 |
| 1936 | #3,147 | 6 |
| 1935 | — | |
| 1934 | #3,277 | 6 |
| 1933 | — | |
| 1932 | #2,638 | 9 |
| 1931 | — | |
| 1930 | #4,001 | 5 |
| 1929 | #2,589 | 10 |
| 1928 | #4,151 | 5 |
| 1927 | #2,523 | 11 |
| 1926 | #2,725 | 10 |
| 1925 | #2,313 | 13 |
| 1924 | #3,505 | 7 |
| 1923 | #2,950 | 9 |
| 1922 | #2,240 | 14 |
| 1921 | #3,517 | 7 |
| 1920 | #2,602 | 11 |
| 1919 | #2,385 | 12 |
| 1918 | #3,096 | 8 |
| 1917 | #3,217 | 7 |
| 1916 | #2,730 | 9 |
| 1915 | #1,878 | 15 |
| 1914 | #1,772 | 13 |
| 1913 | #1,803 | 10 |
| 1912 | #2,045 | 7 |
| 1911 | — | |
| 1910 | — | |
| 1909 | — | |
| 1908 | — | |
| 1907 | — | |
| 1906 | — | |
| 1905 | — | |
| 1904 | #1,205 | 5 |
| 1903 | — | |
| 1902 | — | |
| 1901 | — | |
| 1900 | #1,162 | 6 |
| 1899 | — | |
| 1898 | — | |
| 1897 | — | |
| 1896 | — | |
| 1895 | — | |
| 1894 | #787 | 8 |
| 1893 | — | |
| 1892 | — | |
| 1891 | — | |
| 1890 | — | |
| 1889 | — | |
| 1888 | — | |
| 1887 | — | |
| 1886 | — | |
| 1885 | #836 | 6 |
| 1884 | — | |
| 1883 | #799 | 6 |
| 1882 | #837 | 6 |
| 1881 | — | |
| 1880 | #909 | 5 |
In the first year the SSA published name data, Sylvanus was already there! It came in at #909, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1880–1881, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Sylvanus
- 2,114 spots since 2024 (#9,894 → #12,008)
- 1,403 spots since 2020 (#10,605 → #12,008)
- 3,264 spots since 2015 (#8,744 → #12,008)
- Biggest jump: 38 spots in 1883 (#837 → #799)
- Debuted 1880
- Peaked 1894 at #787 (8 births)
- Births halved by 1895, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 5 yrs · run 1882–1883
- Highest: 1 in 14,471 boys born in 1894 were named Sylvanus (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 341,615 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 20.6% of all boys named Sylvanus (97) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 23 | #799 (1883) | #845 |
| 1890s | 8 | #787 (1894) | #787 |
| 1900s | 11 | #1,162 (1900) | #1,184 |
| 1910s | 81 | #1,772 (1914) | #2,366 |
| 1920s | 97 | #2,240 (1922) | #2,912 |
| 1930s | 34 | #2,638 (1932) | #3,149 |
| 1940s | 40 | #2,534 (1946) | #3,114 |
| 1950s | 13 | #3,143 (1953) | #3,339 |
| 1960s | 5 | #4,048 (1963) | #4,048 |
| 1970s | 15 | #4,724 (1970) | #5,179 |
| 1980s | 28 | #4,134 (1980) | #5,332 |
| 1990s | 16 | #8,236 (1991) | #8,472 |
| 2000s | 35 | #8,299 (2005) | #9,916 |
| 2010s | 31 | #8,744 (2015) | #10,649 |
| 2020s | 33 | #8,921 (2023) | #10,228 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Sylvanus in 1883
Top boys' names in 1883
More about 1883
boys
104,625 boys got a published name in 1883; 1 in 17,438 of them was named Sylvanus, which outranked 22.4% of the 1,030 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 42.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).