Sylvia

Latin

"from the forest"

Sylvia Origin and Meaning

Variation of Silvia

Sylvia Rank in US Top 1000

# 361 in the US

Sylvia Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

# 185 on Nameberry

Popularity of the name Sylvia

• 361 US 2024
• 185 Nameberry 2025
• 427 Future 2028
• 636 England 2024

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Famous People Named Sylvia

• (Estelle) Sylvia Pankhurst English suffragette and socialist
• Sylvia Plath 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

The name 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

International Variations of the name Sylvia

• Silvina Spanish
• Silvia Spanish
• Silvana Spanish
• Silwia Polish
• Silveria Spanish
• Sylvianne French
• Silivia Hawaiian
• Sylvette French
• Silva Italian
• Sylvie French