Silvia
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Silvia is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country, where it is the 52nd most common given name. Recorded meaning: Ancient Latin name, which was also the name of the mother of Gregory the Great.
- ARArgentina≈1 in 155(inferred from the name graph)
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 225
- ITItaly≈1 in 331
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Silvia itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Argentina (inferred from the name graph)
- #169 (measured from records)
- 6 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 549 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 155 (inferred from the name graph)
≈290,000 people, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Argentina, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Sylvia in US United States, IT Italy and Силвия in BG Bulgaria.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Ancient Latin name, which was also the name of the mother of Gregory the Great. See main dictionary. Masculine form: Silvio.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Silvia counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | #52 | ≈290,000 est. | ≈1 in 155 | 52 | Silvia | 174 |
| IT Italy | #207 | ≈190,000 est. | ≈1 in 331 | 212 | Sylvia | 169 |
| PL Poland | #809 | 181,946as Sylwia | 1 in 210 | 182K | Silvia | 41 |
| BR Brazil | #123 | 180,610 | 1 in 1.2K | 204K | Silvia | 205 |
| US United States | #221 | 152,900as Sylvia | 1 in 2.2K | 153K | Sylvia | 549 |
| SV El Salvador | #68 | ≈29,000 est. | ≈1 in 225 | — | Silvia | 48 |
| BG Bulgaria | #41 | 24,517as Силвиа | 1 in 284 | 25K | Силвия | 112 |
| MD Moldova | — | 11,335 | 1 in 297 | 11K | — | 17 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); NSI — most common given names (population); e-services.md — living population register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Silvia is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Ancient Latin name; also the name of the mother of Gregory the Great. See main dictionary. Masculine form: Silvio.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
Tunisie
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
In Swedish, Silvia är en sidoform till → Sylvia, vanlig i bl.a. romanska länder. En känd namnbärare är drottning Silvia (f. 1943), Sveriges drottning sedan 1976. I den rikssvenska almanackan 8 augusti.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In Italian, forma fem. de Silvio
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In French, Du latin silva « forêt »; forme de Sylvia/Sylvie.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Chiara Lubichb. 1920ITnot in their usual nameItalian founder of the Focolare Movement (1920–2008)
- Silvia Sommerlathb. 1943SEqueen consort of Sweden
- Silvia Cartwrightb. 1943NZNew Zealand viceroy, jurist
- Silvia Montib. 1946ITItalian film actress (1946–2026)
- Silvia Saintb. 1976CZCzech pornographic actress
- Silvia Collocab. 1977AUItalian singer, actress, author and TV cooking personality
- Silvia Navarrob. 1978MXMexican actress
- Silvia Abascalb. 1979ESSpanish actress
- Sílvia Albertob. 1981PTPortuguese television presenter and actress
- Princess Estelle, Duchess of Östergötlandb. 2012SEnot in their usual namedaughter of Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden, and Prince Daniel, Duke of Västergötland
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 106 sources across 52 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 204K | #255 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 181K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 180K | #185 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 81K | #656 |
| BG Bulgaria | NSI — most common given names (population) | 2018 | 25K | #15 |
| MD Moldova | e-services.md — living population register | — | 11K | #97 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 821 | #527 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 821 | #527 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 597 | #185 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 331 | — |
| IT Italy | ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend) | 2024 | 212 | #123 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 182 | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Silvia come from?
- Ancient Latin name, which was also the name of the mother of Gregory the Great. See main dictionary. Masculine form: Silvio. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- What does the name Silvia mean?
- Recorded meaning: Ancient Latin name, which was also the name of the mother of Gregory the Great.
- In which country does Silvia have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 294 thousand people named Silvia in Argentina, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled silvia.
- What are other forms of the name Silvia?
- In the etymology graph, Sylvia, Sylvie and Silvina are forms of the same name in other languages.
- Is Silvia a male or female name?
- Silvia is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- How common is the name Silvia?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 180,610 people named Silvia in 2022, about 1 in 1.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Silvia compared with other names?
- In Argentina, Silvia is the 52nd most common given name of 119,825 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/silviaThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), and bulk access is licensed separately.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Silvia” — the 52nd most common given name in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.