Sylva
loc · Latin script
Meaning: An incorporated town, the county seat of Jackson County, North Carolina, United States
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 26 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Sylva is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- CZCzechia1 in 1.2K(measured from records)
- NONorway≈1 in 100K
- BEBelgium≈1 in 100K
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 Sylva 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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 117 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.2K (inferred from the name graph)
18,419 named Silva, 2022
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Silva in US United States and Сильва in RU Russia.
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
(measured from records)An incorporated town, the county seat of Jackson County, North Carolina, United States.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Sylva 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 18,419as Silva | 1 in 11K | 18K | — | 1 |
| CZ Czechia | 8,704 | 1 in 1.2K | 8.7K | — | 68 |
| SI Slovenia | 4,110as Silva | 1 in 512 | 4.1K | — | — |
| US United States | 2,598as Silva | 1 in 128K | 163K | Silva | 35 |
| RU Russia | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 60K | register #1,260 | Сильва | 117 |
| HR Croatia | 889as Silva | 1 in 4.8K | 889 | — | — |
| LV Latvia | 539as Silva | 1 in 3.5K | 539 | — | 1 |
| AL Albania | 500as Silva | 1 in 6.1K | 500 | — | — |
18,419 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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 2020; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); MVČR — living population register 2017; SURS — resident population given names; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts). 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)- Marguerite Sylvab. 1875BEBelgian opera singer (1875–1957)
- Berthe Sylvab. 1885FRFrench singer (1885-1941)
- Sylva Langovab. 1921CZCzech-British actress (1921–2010)
- Sylva Koscinab. 1933ITYugoslav actress (1933-1994)
- Sylva Zalmansonb. 1944ILSoviet-born Jewish Prisoner of Zion, human rights activist, artist and engineer
- Sylva Kelegianb. 1962USAmerican actress
- Sylva Lauerováb. 1962CZCzech writer and poet (born 1962)
- Sylva Fischerováb. 1963CZCzech poet, writer, and philologist
- Tony Sylvab. 1975SNSenegalese and French footballer
- Alanyingi SylvaNGformer first lady of Bayelsa State
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).
Evidence
(measured from records)47 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 26 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.8K | #14,792 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.8K | #15,864 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.6K | #16,955 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 76 | #77,671 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- What does the name Sylva mean, and where does it come from?
- An incorporated town, the county seat of Jackson County, North Carolina, United States. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Sylva have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 18 thousand people named Silva, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Sylva most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sylva is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 1.2 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Sylva?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 8,704 people named Sylva, about 1 in 1.2 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sylvaThe 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, “Sylva”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.