Silvana
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Latin/Italian form of Silvana; ‘forest, woods’
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/silbana/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Silvana is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. In Uruguay it is the 57th most common given name.
- ARArgentina≈1 in 630(inferred from the name graph)
- BRBrazil1 in 1K
- ITItaly≈1 in 1.2K
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 Silvana 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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 257 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 630 (inferred from the name graph)
208,121 people, 2022
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Argentina, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
Latin/Italian form of Silvana; ‘forest, woods’
Sources 1
- Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Silvana 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #138 | 208,121 | 1 in 1K | 224K | Silvana | 192 |
| AR Argentina | #193 | ≈72,000 est. | ≈1 in 630 | 16 | Silvana | 146 |
| IT Italy | #575 | ≈54,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | 21 | Silvana | 110 |
| EC Ecuador | #218 | 9,190 | 1 in 1.8K | 9.2K | Silvana | 56 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈8,600 est. | ≈1 in 31K | — | Silvana | 96 |
| AL Albania | — | 3,368 | 1 in 913 | 3.4K | — | — |
| HR Croatia | — | 3,078 | 1 in 1.4K | 3.1K | — | — |
| UY Uruguay | #57 | 131as Sylvana | 1 in 26K | 131 | Silvana | 76 |
208,121 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); INEC — civil registry names; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). 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)
Silvana 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.
In English, A Filipino dessert, a frozen cookie made from a layer of buttercream sandwiched between two cashew-meringue wafers coated with cookie crumbs.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, Silvana är den feminina motsvarigheten till Silvano, den italienska formen av Silvanus (→ Silas). En känd namnbärare är den svenska hiphop-artisten Silvana Imam (f. 1986).
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In French, Variante féminine de Sylvain, du latin silva « forêt ».
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In French, Forme féminine de Silvan/Sylvain.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In German, ) Sylvana: weibl. Vom., weibli che Form von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
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)
- Silvana Pampaninib. 1925ITItalian actress and director (1925-2016)
- Silvana Manganob. 1930ITItalian actress (1930–1989)
- Silvana Armenulićb. 1939BABosnia and Herzegovina singer (1939–1976)
- Lara Saint Paulb. 1945ERnot in their usual nameItalian Eritrean singer, entertainer, impresario and record producer (1945–2018)
- Silvana Gallardob. 1953USAmerican actress (1953–2012)
- Silvana Fallisib. 1964ITItalian actress
- Silvana López Moreirab. 1974PYformer First Lady of Paraguay (* 1974)
- Silvana Tirinzonib. 1979CHSwiss curler
- Silvana Imamb. 1986SELithuanian-born Swedish rapper
- Silvana Stancob. 1993ITItalian sport shooter
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 81 sources across 43 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 224K | #232 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 208K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 207K | #154 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 9.2K | #226 |
| AL Albania | INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts) | — | 3.4K | #80 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 3.1K | #286 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 2.8K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 792 | #154 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 170 | — |
| IT Italy | ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend) | 2024 | 21 | #579 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 16 | #1,734 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 2014 | 10 | — |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- What does the name Silvana mean, and where does it come from?
- Latin/Italian form of Silvana; ‘forest, woods’ Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular….
- Is Silvana a male or female name?
- Silvana 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 do you pronounce Silvana?
- A machine transcription gives /silbana/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What are other forms of the name Silvana?
- In the etymology graph, Sylviane, Sylvaine and Sylvianne are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Silvana have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 208 thousand people named Silvana, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled silvana.
- How common is the name Silvana?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 208,121 people named Silvana in 2022, about 1 in 1.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Silvana compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Silvana is the 138th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/silvanaThe 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), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Silvana” — the 138th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.