Sylve

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/sɪɫv/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Sylve is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 380K(measured from records)
  • SESweden≈1 in 99K
  • FIFinland1 in 136K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

875 people, 2010

Sources
141 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 99K (inferred from the name graph)

Sweden, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

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 in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Sylve 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 Sylve is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States8751 in 380K985Sylve141
SE Sweden≈100 est.≈1 in 99K488Sylve7
IT Italy≈55 est.≈1 in 1.1M—Sylve2
FI Finland411 in 136K41—1
FR France≈28 est.≈1 in 2.4Mlisted—1
JM Jamaica≈12 est.≈1 in 242K—Sylve1
SG Singapore≈11 est.≈1 in 582K—Sylve1

875 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); the fr-insee-noms 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

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

  • French surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States

    Also written Sylvé, Sylvè

  • Spanish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Brazil

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Sylvé

32 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)

Sylve 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 French, forest; woods

    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).

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalDear Ms Sylve,
InformalHi Sylve,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 12 sources across 5 countries.

Official registers attesting Sylve
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020985#26,135
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010875#27,534
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000662#32,703
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—41#27,348
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—24#22,141
FI FinlandDVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register)—21—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19018—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19316—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19216—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19715—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19513—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)18913—

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

How do you pronounce Sylve?
A machine transcription gives /sɪɫv/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Sylve have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 875 people named Sylve, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sylve.
How common is the name Sylve?
In the United States, the national register counted 875 people named Sylve in 2010, about 1 in 380 thousand residents.

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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, “Sylve”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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