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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Sylvania” in the USA?

Number of people named “Sylvania” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Sylvania” 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 “Sylvania” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Sylvania” by birth year

This chart shows how “Sylvania” 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
1881 6 0.000031138 6 100%
1884 6 0.000024645 6 100%
1886 6 0.0000235 6 100%
1888 5 0.000016696 5 100%
1890 5 0.000016589 5 100%
1892 5 0.000014953 5 100%
1894 6 0.000017715 6 100%
1895 7 0.000019942 7 100%
1896 8 0.000022379 8 100%
1897 5 0.000014411 5 100%
1901 6 0.00001735 6 100%
1902 6 0.000015515 6 100%
1903 6 0.00001574 6 100%
1904 6 0.00001487 6 100%
1906 6 0.000014004 6 100%
1907 9 0.000019339 9 100%
1908 7 0.000014325 7 100%
1910 5 0.000008464 5 100%
1912 5 0.00000506 5 100%
1913 10 0.000008794 10 100%
1914 12 0.000008473 12 100%
1915 18 0.000009823 18 100%
1916 13 0.00000672 13 100%
1917 10 0.000004983 10 100%
1918 9 0.000004145 9 100%
1919 5 0.000002369 5 100%
1920 13 0.000005745 13 100%
1921 10 0.000004284 10 100%
1922 16 0.000006989 16 100%
1923 7 0.00000304 7 100%
1924 8 0.000003359 8 100%
1925 8 0.000003429 8 100%
1926 6 0.000002613 6 100%
1927 8 0.000003449 8 100%
1928 11 0.000004865 11 100%
1929 9 0.000004106 9 100%
1930 7 0.000003148 7 100%
1933 8 0.000004001 8 100%
1934 7 0.000003371 7 100%
1936 9 0.000004332 9 100%
1937 10 0.000004693 10 100%
1938 6 0.000002712 6 100%
1939 8 0.000003631 8 100%
1940 5 0.000002171 5 100%
1942 7 0.000002562 7 100%
1944 8 0.000002974 8 100%
1945 6 0.000002262 6 100%
1949 5 0.000001435 5 100%
1950 10 0.000002854 10 100%
1951 8 0.000002172 8 100%
1952 6 0.00000158 6 100%
1953 10 0.000002595 10 100%
1954 7 0.000001758 7 100%
1955 10 0.000002491 10 100%
1956 10 0.000002425 10 100%
1957 7 0.000001666 7 100%
1958 7 0.000001693 7 100%
1960 5 0.000001204 5 100%
1961 7 0.00000169 7 100%
1962 6 0.000001487 6 100%
1963 7 0.000001768 7 100%
1964 7 0.000001801 7 100%
1966 5 0.000001439 5 100%
1968 7 0.000002072 7 100%
1969 6 0.000001726 6 100%
1972 5 0.000001591 5 100%
1973 5 0.000001657 5 100%
1975 7 0.000002318 7 100%
1982 6 0.00000171 6 100%
1987 10 0.000002773 10 100%
1988 8 0.000002165 8 100%
1989 6 0.000001561 6 100%

Explore other names

These names are alphabetically near to Sylvania:

  1. Sylva
  2. Sylvain
  3. Sylvan
  4. Sylvana
  5. Sylvanas
  6. Sylvania (this page)
  7. Sylvanna
  8. Sylvannah
  9. Sylvanus
  10. Sylvee
  11. Sylvene