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Sylvia

OriginLatin
Meaning"from the forest"
GenderGirl

About Sylvia

Variation of Silvia

2 syllables.

As of September 2026, Sylvia ranked #300 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #50 in 1937, Nameberry popularity #91.

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  • (Estelle) Sylvia Pankhurst

    English suffragette and socialist

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    American poet and novelist

  • Sylvia Sidney (born Sophia Kosow)

    American actress

  • Sylvia Peterson

    American singer of The Chiffons

  • Sylvia Shaqueria Fowles

    American basketball player

  • Sylvia Lewis

    American actress, dancer, and choreographer

  • Sylvia Louise Hitchcock

    Miss USA and Miss Universe 1967

  • Sylvia of Hollywood (born Symnove Johanne Waaler)

    Swedish,American fitness guru to the stars

  • Sylvia Celeste Browne

    American psychic and author

  • Sylvia Llewelyn Davies

    mother of the Davies boys, the inspiration for J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan character

  • Sylvia Lucia Peters

    British television presenter and actress

  • (Ai

    chia) Sylvia Chang, Taiwanese actress/pop singer

  • Sylvia Jeffreys

    Australian journalist and TV presenter

  • Sylvia Lim (Swee Lian)

    Singaporean politician

  • Sylvia Moy

    American songwriter and producer

  • Sylvia Rhyne Hatchell

    American college basketball coach

  • Sylvia Alice Earle

    American marine biologist

  • Sylvia Grey Dalton (b. 2012)

    daughter of actor Brett Dalton

  • Sylvia Zamperini

    sister of WWII POW Louis Zamperini

  • Sylvia Rivera

    transgender woman and LGBT+ activist

  • Sylvia Hoeks

    Dutch actress

Sylvia in pop culture

  • Sylvia

    ballet by Leo Delibes

  • Sylvia

    character in Graham Greene's "The End of the Affair"

  • Sylvia

    the goat in Edward Albee's "The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?"

  • Sylvia Fine

    Fran's mother on TV's "The Nanny"

  • Sylvia Garland

    character in film "The Truman Show"

  • Sylvia Parker Jr.

    character in fictional podcast "Alice Isn't Dead"

  • Sylvia Tietjens

    Christopher's unfaithful Roman Catholic wife, a malicious beauty, in novels by Ford Madox Ford

  • Sylvia Fowler

    character in Clare Booth Luce's "The Women"

  • Sylvia Weis

    character in film "In Time'

  • Queen Sylvia

    ruler of Halloway in "The Black Jewels" trilogy

  • Sylvia Redbird

    character in the 'House Of Night' series by PC Cast

  • Sylvia Bennington

    character in films "Three Men And A Baby" and "Three Men And A Little Lady"

  • Sylvia the Zbornak

    character on TV's "Wander Over Yonder"

  • Sylvia Miskin McFly ( aka Trixie Trotter)

    character in the Back to the Future video game

  • "Sylvia's Mother"

    song by Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show

  • "Sylvia"

    song by Stevie Wonder

  • Sylvia Green

    one of the two heroines of Joan Aiken's "The Wolves of Willoughby Chase"

  • Sylvia Tilly

    character, Starfleet officer in the TV series, Star Trek: Discovery

  • “Sylvia”

    Song by Elvis Presley

Variations & nicknames

  • SilvinaSpanish
  • SilviaSpanish
  • SilvanaSpanish
  • SilwiaPolish
  • SilveriaSpanish
  • SylvianneFrench
  • SiliviaHawaiian
  • SylvetteFrench
  • SilvaItalian
  • SylvieFrench

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