Sylvette
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a diminutive of the female given name Sylvie
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/silvɛt/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sylvette is a given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in France.
- FRFrance
- USUnited States
- CACanada
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.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a diminutive of the female given name Sylvie
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)
Sylvette is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, Diminutif de Sylvie, du latin silva « forêt ».
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In French, Diminutif féminin de Sylvie/Sylvain.
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)
- Sylvette Fillacierb. 1895FRFrench actress (1895-1960)
- Sylvette Baudrotb. 1928FRFrench script supervisor
- Lydia Corbettb. 1934FRnot in their usual nameBritish artist, known as Picasso's "Girl with a ponytail" (born 1934)
- Sylvette Molièresb. 1945FRFrench politician
- Sylvette Cabrisseaub. 1949FRFrench actress and writer
- Miou-Mioub. 1950FRnot in their usual nameFrench actress
- Sylvette Guillemardb. 1952CAlawyer and university professor
- Sylvette Fayetb. 1954French political activist
- Sylvette Tourmenteb. 1960FRFrench biologist
- Sylvette LarzulFRFrench historian
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 15 sources across 10 countries.
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
- What does the name Sylvette mean, and where does it come from?
- a diminutive of the female given name Sylvie Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Sylvette?
- A machine transcription gives /silvɛt/ (IPA) for French.
- Is Sylvette a male or female name?
- Sylvette 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 Sylvette?
- In the etymology graph, Silvia and Sylvia are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Sylvette have the most bearers?
- Sylvette is most frequently recorded in France.
What do you want to know about Sylvette?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sylvetteThe 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, “Sylvette”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.