Sylvie

What Sylvie means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Sylvie yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #1,175 in 2015, #282 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Sylvie?

US: Rising: up from #1175 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #377 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2025, when 1,096 girls got the name (#282 that year). First in the US records in 1909.

How common

• About 1 in 1,466 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 938 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 942 baby girls in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in SD (5.24 per 1,000 girls), MT (3.89 per 1,000 girls), ME (3.21 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Sylvie is #282 in the US and #186 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Sylvie were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Sylvia1,017 US · 95 E&W
• Silvia182 US · 12 E&W
• Silvie22 US · 3 E&W
• Sylphie5 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Sylvie

Girls

• Josephine#53Feminine form of Joseph, meaning “(God) shall add”^*
• Eloise#49Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #254 in 2015, #49 in 2025. 6 letters, starting with a vowel
• Esme#298Diminutive of Esmeralda, meaning “emerald”^*
• Juliette#110Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #227 in 2015, #110 in 2025
• Estelle#573“star”^*
• Lucille#237Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1920, with 7,989 babies; 1,314 in 2025

For a brother

• Augustine#545Same root as Austin, meaning “majestic”^*
• Julien#709Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #709 vs #3,256 in 2025
• Bo#449Swedish, from Old Norse Búi, meaning “dweller, long-time resident”^*
• Noel#478French, meaning “birthday of the Lord”^*
• Joan#984“God is gracious”^*
• Avery#291Editor’s note Down from #188 in 2015 to #291 in 2025 in the US

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under French, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Sylvie’s. Rank is US 2025.