Sylvana

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Sylvana 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.

rarermore common
  • UYUruguay1 in 26K(measured from records)
  • ARArgentina≈1 in 630as Silvana
  • BRBrazil1 in 1Kas Silvana

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 Sylvana 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)

208,121 named Silvana, 2022

3 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
257 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 6.1K (inferred from the name graph)

Netherlands

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

SilvanaLatin(measured from records)
ΣυλβάναGreek(measured from records)
სილვანაGeorgian(measured from records)

Locally spelled Silvana in AR Argentina, BR Brazil, UY Uruguay and 3 more.

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Sources 1

Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Sylvana 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.

Where Sylvana is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil#138208,121as Silvana1 in 1K224KSilvana192
AR Argentina#193≈72,000 est.≈1 in 63016Silvana146
IT Italy#575≈54,000 est.≈1 in 1.2K21Silvana110
EC Ecuador#2189,190as Silvana1 in 1.8K9.2KSilvana56
ID Indonesia—≈8,600 est.≈1 in 31K—Silvana96
AL Albania—3,368as Silvana1 in 9133.4K——
HR Croatia—3,078as Silvana1 in 1.4K3.1K——
NL Netherlands—2,8501 in 6.1K2.8KSylvana46
UY Uruguay#571311 in 26K131Silvana76

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); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Sylvana is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Chile, Brazil, Peru, United States

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Sylvána, Sýlvana

  • Croatian given name32 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, Bulgaria, United States, Serbia

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Russian

    Also written Silvana, Силвана, Сильвана, Šilvana, Сілвана

45 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1940196019802000Sylvana Foa, b. 1945Sylvana Lorenz, b. 1953Sylvana Windsor, b. 1957Sylvana Krappatsch, b. 1965Sylvana Sofkova Hashemi, b. 1969Sylvana Simons, b. 1971Sylvana Seddig, b. 1985Sylvana IJsselmuiden, b. 1994Sylvana Felfleh, b. 2000

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 52 sources across 36 countries.

Official registers attesting Sylvana
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IT Italy意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual)———

Reference works 3

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • 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

Is Sylvana a male or female name?
Sylvana 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.
What are other forms of the name Sylvana?
In the etymology graph, Silvia and Sylvia are forms of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Sylvana 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 is Sylvana most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sylvana is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 6.1 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Sylvana?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted 2,850 people named Sylvana, about 1 in 6.1 thousand residents.
How common is Sylvana compared with other names?
In Brazil, Sylvana is the 138th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.

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The same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 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, “Sylvana” — the 138th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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