Sylvía
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/sɪlvija/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sylvía is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country, where it is the 52nd most common given name.
- USUnited States1 in 2.2K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina≈1 in 155as Silvia
- PLPoland1 in 210as Sylwia
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 Sylvía itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Argentina (inferred from the name graph)
- #169 (measured from records)
- 6 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 549 (measured from records)
- 1 in 962 (inferred from the name graph)
≈290,000 named Silvia, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Silvia in AR Argentina, BR Brazil, PL Poland and 1 more, Sylvia in US United States, IT Italy, Силвия in BG Bulgaria and Сильвия in FI Finland.
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.
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 across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sylvía 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | #52 | ≈290,000 est. | ≈1 in 155 | 52 | Silvia | 174 |
| IT Italy | #207 | ≈190,000 est. | ≈1 in 331 | 212 | Sylvia | 169 |
| PL Poland | #809 | 181,946as Sylwia | 1 in 210 | 182K | Silvia | 41 |
| BR Brazil | #123 | 180,610as Silvia | 1 in 1.2K | 204K | Silvia | 205 |
| US United States | #221 | 152,900 | 1 in 2.2K | 153K | Sylvia | 549 |
| SV El Salvador | #68 | ≈29,000 est. | ≈1 in 225 | — | Silvia | 48 |
| BG Bulgaria | #41 | 24,517as Силвиа | 1 in 284 | 25K | Силвия | 112 |
| MD Moldova | — | 11,335as Silvia | 1 in 297 | 11K | — | 17 |
| FI Finland | — | 5,792 | 1 in 962 | 16K | Сильвия | 16 |
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; RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); NSI — most common given names (population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); e-services.md — living population 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Sylvía SigurbjörnsdóttirISIcelandic actress
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 6 sources across 3 countries.
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 Sylvía?
- A machine transcription gives /sɪlvija/ (IPA) for Icelandic.
- Is Sylvía a male or female name?
- Sylvía 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.
- In which country does Sylvía have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 294 thousand people named Silvia in Argentina, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Sylvía most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sylvía is densest in Finland — about 1 in 962 people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Sylvía?
- In the United States, the national register counted 152,900 people named Sylvía in 2020, about 1 in 2.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Sylvía compared with other names?
- In Argentina, Sylvía is the 52nd most common given name of 119,825 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Sylvía?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sylv%C3%ADaThe 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, “Sylvía” — the 52nd most common given name in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.