Silvestar
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries · latest register: SURS, 2025
/siɫvɛstɐr/(machine-generated) Bulgarian · model-generated · read from силвестър
Silvestar is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Silvestar is also written Силвестър in Cyrillic.
- HRCroatia1 in 8.9K(measured from records)
- BGBulgaria≈1 in 30Kfew records
- NONorway≈1 in 1.6M
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 Silvestar itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 44 (measured from records)
- 1 in 8.9K (inferred from the name graph)
15,812 named Sylvester, 2020
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Silvestar in other scripts: Cyrillic
(measured from records)Locally spelled Sylvester in US United States and Silvester in SI Slovenia.
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.
How to pronounce Silvestar
- Bulgarian:/siɫvɛstɐr/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Silvestar 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 15,812as Sylvester | 1 in 21K | 19K | Sylvester | 14 |
| DK Denmark | — | 2,642as Sylvester | 1 in 2.2K | 2.6K | — | — |
| IN India | — | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 593K | 108 | Silvestar | 7 |
| SI Slovenia | #545 | 1,218as Silvester | 1 in 1.7K | 1.2K | Silvester | 16 |
| SE Sweden | — | 668as Sylvester | 1 in 15K | 668 | — | 2 |
| FI Finland | — | 582as Sylvester | 1 in 9.6K | 1.3K | — | 1 |
| HR Croatia | #699 | 474 | 1 in 8.9K | 474 | Silvestar | 44 |
| GY Guyana | — | 155as Sylvester | 1 in 4.8K | 155 | — | — |
15,812 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SURS — resident population given names; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Silvestar Bedričićb. 1450HRprinter and translator (-1512)
- Silvestar Bubanovićb. 1754HRGreek Roman Catholic bishop (1754–1810)
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)12 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Silvestar?
- In Bulgarian /siɫvɛstɐr/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Silvestar a male or female name?
- Silvestar is a male 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.
- Which countries have the most people named Silvestar?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 16 thousand people named Sylvester, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Denmark, India, Slovenia and Sweden; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Silvestar most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Silvestar is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 8.9 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Silvestar?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 474 people named Silvestar in 2021, about 1 in 8.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Silvestar compared with other names?
- In Slovenia, Silvestar is the 545th most common given name of 4,300 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Silvestar?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/silvestarThe 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, “Silvestar” — ranked 1784th in the United States (Census Bureau). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.