Sylvania

loc · Latin script

Sylvania is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States
  • AUAustralia
  • GBUnited Kingdom

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Record sources
118 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Meaning & origin

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

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Sylvania counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Sylvania is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—304Sylvania118
AU Australia——Sylvania16
GB United Kingdom——Sylvania16
CA Canada——Sylvania9
RU Russia——Sylvania1
BR Brazil—128—36

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; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror). 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)

Sylvania is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Gabon

    Also written Sylvánia

36 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.

Other recorded senses

(measured from records)

Sylvania is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, A suburb in southern Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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)

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)

14 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.

Official registers attesting Sylvania
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020304#27,122
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022128—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—128#34,648
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)198094—
BR BrazilBrasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)—70#28,237
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)197058—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)196038—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)197036—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202035#27,122
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)198034—
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—28#54,441
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)196020—

Reference works 1

  • 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

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Sylvania is most frequently recorded in the United States, where it is most often spelled sylvania.

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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, “Sylvania”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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