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How popular is “Sylvan” in the USA?

Number of people named “Sylvan” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Sylvan” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Sylvan” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Sylvan” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Sylvan” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Sylvan” by birth year

This chart shows how “Sylvan” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1886 7 0.000027417 7 -100%
1888 5 0.000016696 5 -100%
1891 5 0.000017441 5 -100%
1892 5 0.000014953 5 -100%
1894 5 0.000014763 5 -100%
1896 6 0.000016784 6 -100%
1897 7 0.000020175 7 -100%
1899 11 0.000032426 11 -100%
1900 12 0.000026651 12 -100%
1903 8 0.000020986 8 -100%
1904 8 0.000019827 8 -100%
1906 13 0.000030342 13 -100%
1907 13 0.000027934 13 -100%
1908 13 0.000026604 13 -100%
1909 10 0.000019561 10 -100%
1910 11 0.000018622 11 -100%
1911 24 0.000037251 24 -100%
1912 53 0.00005364 53 -100%
1913 48 0.000042212 48 -100%
1914 52 0.000036714 52 -100%
1915 66 0.000036018 66 -100%
1916 84 0.000043424 84 -100%
1917 73 0.000036377 73 -100%
1918 103 0.000047441 103 -100%
1919 71 0.000033645 71 -100%
1920 68 0.000030053 68 -100%
1921 76 0.000032555 76 -100%
1922 66 0.000028832 66 -100%
1923 69 0.000029968 69 -100%
1924 73 0.000030652 73 -100%
1925 80 0.000034286 80 -100%
1926 71 0.000030925 71 -100%
1927 52 0.00002242 52 -100%
1928 51 0.000022557 51 -100%
1929 54 0.000024633 54 -100%
1930 47 0.00002114 47 -100%
1931 40 0.000019008 40 -100%
1932 50 0.000023682 50 -100%
1933 37 0.000018505 37 -100%
1934 39 0.000018779 39 -100%
1935 44 0.000021054 44 -100%
1936 36 0.000017328 36 -100%
1937 33 0.000015488 33 -100%
1938 33 0.000014915 33 -100%
1939 32 0.000014523 32 -100%
1940 32 0.000013897 32 -100%
1941 28 0.000011492 28 -100%
1942 29 0.000010616 29 -100%
1943 34 0.000012046 34 -100%
1944 31 0.000011524 31 -100%
1945 19 0.000007162 19 -100%
1946 21 0.000006572 21 -100%
1947 29 0.00000805 29 -100%
1948 25 0.000007241 25 -100%
1949 30 0.000008609 30 -100%
1950 25 0.000007136 25 -100%
1951 19 0.000005158 19 -100%
1952 29 0.000007636 29 -100%
1953 18 0.000004671 18 -100%
1954 15 0.000003768 15 -100%
1955 11 0.00000274 11 -100%
1956 16 0.000003881 16 -100%
1957 16 0.000003808 16 -100%
1958 14 0.000003387 14 -100%
1959 15 0.000003608 15 -100%
1960 18 0.000004333 18 -100%
1961 15 0.000003621 15 -100%
1962 10 0.000002478 10 -100%
1963 12 0.000003032 12 -100%
1964 18 0.00000463 18 -100%
1965 5 0.000001379 5 -100%
1966 17 0.000004891 17 -100%
1968 7 0.000002072 7 -100%
1969 6 0.000001726 6 -100%
1970 5 0.000001386 5 -100%
1971 16 0.000004662 16 -100%
1972 14 0.000004454 14 -100%
1973 11 0.000003646 11 -100%
1974 8 0.000002632 8 -100%
1975 18 0.000005961 18 -100%
1976 9 0.000002966 9 -100%
1977 9 0.000002833 9 -100%
1978 6 0.00000189 6 -100%
1979 9 0.000002705 9 -100%
1980 14 0.000004064 14 -100%
1981 13 0.000003758 13 -100%
1982 9 0.000002566 9 -100%
1983 13 0.000003754 13 -100%
1984 17 0.000004873 17 -100%
1985 14 0.000003923 14 -100%
1986 8 0.000002249 8 -100%
1987 15 0.00000416 15 -100%
1988 13 0.000003518 13 -100%
1989 11 0.000002861 11 -100%
1990 15 0.000003795 15 -100%
1991 7 0.000001797 7 -100%
1992 12 0.000003124 12 -100%
1993 26 0.000006896 6 20 -54%
1994 16 0.000004304 16 -100%
1995 12 0.000003277 12 -100%
1996 9 0.000002468 9 -100%
1997 11 0.000003034 11 -100%
1998 19 0.000005166 19 -100%
1999 11 0.000002978 11 -100%
2000 28 0.000007408 6 22 -57%
2001 22 0.000005877 22 -100%
2002 34 0.000009095 5 29 -71%
2003 26 0.000006838 6 20 -54%
2004 26 0.000006805 5 21 -62%
2005 18 0.000004682 18 -100%
2006 32 0.000008089 7 25 -56%
2007 18 0.000004503 18 -100%
2008 20 0.000005088 20 -100%
2009 28 0.00000733 8 20 -43%
2010 27 0.000007306 27 -100%
2011 25 0.000006835 25 -100%
2012 31 0.000008476 31 -100%
2013 34 0.000009326 5 29 -71%
2014 35 0.000009443 35 -100%
2015 33 0.000008917 8 25 -52%
2016 43 0.000011721 43 -100%
2017 35 0.000009787 35 -100%
2018 43 0.00001223 11 32 -49%
2019 48 0.000013829 48 -100%
2020 52 0.000015566 7 45 -73%
2021 73 0.000021547 9 64 -75%
2022 88 0.000026011 8 80 -82%
2023 86 0.000025972 11 75 -74%
2024 98 0.000029443 15 83 -69%

Explore other names

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  2. Sylphrena
  3. Sylus
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  5. Sylvain
  6. Sylvan (this page)
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  9. Sylvania
  10. Sylvanna
  11. Sylvannah